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Books Quotes by Paulo Coelho

62 Books quotes by Paulo Coelho

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Coelho describes a book as a bridge that lets different cultures meet. He likens reading to a conversation that many people have forgotten. He also says a book works like a film that plays inside the reader’s mind and can change how we see ourselves.

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“Writing books is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public.”

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Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.

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

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It took me 40 years to write my first book.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I…

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“Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books.”

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

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

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Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we…

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

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

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What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who…

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

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“With love, there are no rules. Some may try to control their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior; others may turn…

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“...each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the…

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

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

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

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A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half…

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

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“In one of the books he learned that the most important text in the literature of alchemy contained only a few lines,…

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“He knew that any given thing on the face of the earth could reveal the history of all things. One could open…

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

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

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

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

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“The alchemist picked up a book that someone in the caravan had brought. Leafing through the pages, he found a story about…

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“Despite her apparent freedom, her life consisted of endless hours spent waiting for a miracle, for true love, for an adventure with…

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“Hmm..." said the old man, looking at all sides of the book, as if it were some strange object. "This is an…

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

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

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

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“And he returned to his books, which had never asked him for anything he could not provide. That”

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

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I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the…

Love will never separate a man from his personal legend.

The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things.

You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them…

To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God.

It is not enough to dream of the Impossible Love - it is necessary to conquer it too.

Eat when it is time to eat. And walk when it is time to walk.

People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my…

“Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer fall into…

“Trudi se da zivis, sjecanja su za starije ljude.”

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

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

The past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written…

She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms…

“The simpler the pose, the better; the more sober, the more beautiful.”