Book Quotes by Paulo Coelho

Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.

— Paulo Coelho

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.

— Paulo Coelho

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

— Paulo Coelho

Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.

— Paulo Coelho

if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.

— Paulo Coelho

“The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader.”

— Paulo Coelho

I don't choose. Normally it's the book that chooses me.

— Paulo Coelho

I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

— Paulo Coelho

We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we…

— Paulo Coelho

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

— Paulo Coelho

“If I accept that a book must end, I will finish it tonight. What I am doing now is to postpone this…

— Paulo Coelho

And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.

— Paulo Coelho

I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.

— Paulo Coelho

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business…

— Paulo Coelho

They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.

— Paulo Coelho

He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be…

— Paulo Coelho

I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every…

— Paulo Coelho

Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But…

— Paulo Coelho

I think it is a problem of our society that we don't enjoy (ourselves.) We have these values, like, you have to…

— Paulo Coelho

“I don't have a ready-made formula to apply when I embark on a new book, but my guiding principles are discipline, compassion…

— Paulo Coelho

Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing,…

— Paulo Coelho

I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of…

— Paulo Coelho

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school.…

— Paulo Coelho

I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely,…

— Paulo Coelho

“This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we…

— Paulo Coelho

I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a…

— Paulo Coelho

Traditional religions practices are important.They allow us to share with others the communal experience of adoration and prayer,but we must never forget…

— Paulo Coelho

When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long…

— Paulo Coelho

I think we are afraid of each other when it comes to sex, because we read so much about sex, we talk…

— Paulo Coelho

People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still…

— Paulo Coelho

For many years I was trying to find answers only through books but then I realized that basically, life is about experience…

— Paulo Coelho

The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and…

— Paulo Coelho

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

— Paulo Coelho

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

— Paulo Coelho

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the…

— Paulo Coelho

You need to change yourself. The moment that you change yourself it is a gigantic step. And this is what I do.…

— Paulo Coelho

He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.

— Paulo Coelho

The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say,…

— Paulo Coelho

When a person really desire something, the whole universe help that person to realize hi dream.

— Paulo Coelho

This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up…

— Paulo Coelho