Paulo Coelho Quotes About Books

• He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be as much an adventurer as the ones he had admired in books.

  Paulo Coelho

  Faith, Book, Adventure

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

• The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and listen. They go to the theater, the cinema, watch television, listen to the radio, read books, but they almost never talk. If we want to change the world, we have to go back to a time when warriors would gather around a fire and tell stories.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Book

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Oct 09, 2016

• It took me 40 years to write my first book.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Writing, Years

• People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you don't know how to continue the conversation.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Boys, Sheep

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.20, Harper Collins

• We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Miracle, Brain

• Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best children's stories begin, and "prostitute" is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Book, Feet

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Threatening, Downloads

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Writing, Soul

• This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up until now: restlessness, uncertainty, lies. And in the place of all this you will write the word courage.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lying, Book, Teaching

• 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, I learned calligraphy. I go to courses on selling, I read one book after another. But that's all a way of avoiding those moments when nothing is happening, because those blank spaces give me a feeling of absolute emptiness, in which not a single crumb of love exists.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Hard Work, Son

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Mind, Film

  "My dream was, and still is, to be a writer: Paulo Coelho". Interview with Tanu Talwar, zeenews.india.com. July 06, 2009.

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Hate, Book, Knowing

• Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, ‘No, I’m not interested.’ I believe that each reader creates his own film inside his head, gives faces to the characters, constructs every scene, hears the voices, smells the smells. And that is why, whenever a reader goes to see a film based on a novel that he likes, he leaves feeling disappointed, saying: ‘the book is so much better than the film.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Book, Character

• I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf… Let’s leave our books free to travel, then, to be touched by other hands, and enjoyed by other eyes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Believe, Book, Eye

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Computer, Difficult

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Kings, Book, Dragons

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

• This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we didn't yet know what love meant. A kiss that had been suspended in the air as we grew, that had traveled in the world in the sovenier of a medal, and that had remained hidden behind piles of books. A kiss that had been lost and now was found. In the moment of that kiss were years of searching, disillusionment and impossible dreams.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Book, Kissing

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Forget Everything, Forget

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Reading, Self

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Sometimes, Felt

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “Brida: A Novel”, p.19, Harper Collins

• Traditional religions practices are important.They allow us to share with others the communal experience of adoration and prayer,but we must never forget spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love,and with love,there are no rules some may try to control their emotions and develop strategies for their behavior,others may turn to reading books of advice from "experts" on relationships but this is all folly.The heart decides and what it decides is all that really matters.

  Paulo Coelho

  Spiritual, Prayer, Book

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Reading, Made

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.3, Harper Collins

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

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Writing, Want

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Like the Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

• I think it is a problem of our society that we don't enjoy (ourselves.) We have these values, like, you have to be rich, you have to get a diploma, you have to work hard, otherwise you are useless, you are nothing but a pariah. And the book asks, 'Is it true? This is what my mom told me, but is it true?

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Mom, Book

• Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Honesty, Book

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