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Quote by Paulo Coelho

“There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.”

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Paulo Coelho, born on August 24, 1947, is a renowned Brazilian author and lyricist. His works are characterized by profound philosophical thoughts and rich imagination, with his most famous novel being 'The Alchemist'. more

“You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only if you are convinced that to write is something for which there is no substitute in your life. You must therefore be ambitious for your work rather than for its promotion. The good news here is that if you assign secondary importance to publishing and primary to writing itself, you will write better, and will thus increase your odds of getting publishing.”

Ifs Writing Important Crazy News Importance Increase Convinced Primaries Motive Substitutes Ambitious Odds Publishing Good News Promotion Publication

Author:Sydney Lea

“For I bless God in the libraries of the learned and for all the booksellers in the world.”

World Reading Library Bless Booksellers

Book:Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949): Volume One

Source: Routledge Revivals: The Collected Poems of Christopher Smart (1949): Volume One

“Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.”

Should Book Reading Book Reading

Author:Maxim Gorky

“You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.”

Knows Looks Book Reading Sides Ought Block

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Body Eye Law Reading Literature Sacred Property Profound Drunk Grieving Whiskey

Book:Mark Twain Speaking

Source: Mark Twain Speaking

“Get stewed:Books are a load of crap.”

Book Reading Load Crap

Author:Philip Larkin

“The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.”

Book Hands Light Reading Balls

Book:Guide to Kulchur

Source: Guide to Kulchur

“Never read bad stuff if you're an artist; it will impair your own game. I don't know if you ever played competitive tennis, but you learn not to watch bad tennis; it messes up your game. Art's the same way.”

Ifs Knows Way Art Artist Reading Games Stuff Watches Mess Tennis Bad Stuff

Author:James Lee Burke

“God protects those he loves from worthless reading.”

Reading Protect Worthless

Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater

“I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.”

Want Believe Book Poetry Reading Lost Trust Don't Believe Classic Paradise Reading Books Big Book Blind Trust Book Titles

Author:Mark Twain

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