All PAULO COELHO Quotes about “Books”

“The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people donâ€™t talk anymore, they donâ€™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.”
“It took me 40 years to write my first book.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.”
“Books are not about messages. I write to understand my 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.”
“Up until then, whenever anyone had mentioned the possibility of making a film adaptation, my answer had always been, â€˜No, Iâ€™m not interested.â€™ 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: â€˜the book is so much better than the film.”
“It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.”
“They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.”
“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."”
“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.”
“Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.”
“if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading.”
“And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.”
“I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelfâ€¦ Letâ€™s leave our books free to travel, then, to be touched by other hands, and enjoyed by other eyes.”
“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.”
“I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms.”
“He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.”
“I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.”
“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?”
“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.”

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