Canadian Quotes: Alberto Manguel
On July 30th we celebrate Alberto Manguel!
Language lends voice to the storytellers who try to tell us who we are; language builds out of words our reality and those who inhabit it, within and without the walls; language offers stories that lie and stories that tell the truth. Language changes with us, grows stronger or weaker with us, survives or dies with us. The economic machineries we have built require language to appeal to its consumers, but only on a dogmatic, practical level, deliberately avoiding literature's constant probing and interrogation.
- from The City of Words by Alberto Manguel
