About Books Quotes

String of fate brings two people together and it is love's job to keep them there.

The basic question is not how much of our money we should give to God, but how much of God's money we should keep for ourselves.

I'll tell you a story about Johnny Magory!

One day, I decided to be an island. I took off my clothes and walked into the sea, then floated there, bobbing along with the tide, suspended by my inflatable tube and water wings.

I remember clearly the afternoon that she stood at the corner beside the door of the tourist centre in Gdansk.

As the wind continued to howl and groan through her decaying body, she began to sing her story.

Pak Karman hugged his wife’s gravestone tightly. “You left without saying farewell!” The whole of the graveyard was ablaze with light.

Rebecca woke up with her knees hurting and her fingers ice-cold, and the specifics of her life returned to her as the dream disappeared: weekend, hotel room, Baguio, memory, memory, memory.

Any moment now, I thought, he was going to wake up. Any moment.

Hannah Rose Brown was not quite 13 years old when she discovered her family was cursed. THE PUZZLE RING

Books are another kind of magic.

She looked at me like I was stupid, the same look the girls in JC used to give me when I hadn’t heard of the latest boy band, or turned up at Zouk wearing unfashionable clothes.

Lim Oh Kee kills himself in the early hours on the 12th day of December, 1921. His last meal is rice and nothing.

Be the best you can be for yourself!

If you want to understand the inner workings of the human mind, read good fiction.

When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories.

The only thing better than a well-read book is a well-read book only read by yourself.

Sometimes surviving is all you can do

All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Writing is the Art, re-writing the craft.

My spirit has been around far longer than my soul--I've lived several lifetimes already. And one this novel has been written, I will have lived several more.

Books’ll be back, ” Esther-in-Unalaq predicts. “Wait till the power grids start failing in the 2030s and the datavats get erased. It’s not far away. The future looks a lot like the past.

The habit of upgrading your mind with self-development messages is highly important, if you desire to reach the pinnacle of your true destiny in life.

Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe.

If I knew your thoughts, I would know what you are, for your thoughts make you who you are. By changing our thoughts, we can change our lives.

Don't underestimate the power of humor and the ability to laugh at yourself to deliver peace and serenity.

First, you need to realize everything you thought you knew about yourself, about me, is a lie.

The process of creation can be unpredictable and, in some way, similar to love: the brightest waves of inspiration may sometimes occur in wrong timing, wrong places, or even with wrong people.

They say a picture is worth 1, 000 words. I say its closer to 675 or 700.

To imagine is to spark beauty in our thoughts.

My friends think I'm outgoing, but I don't travel as much outside as I do from the inside.

The show must go on, and so must The Book.

I'm going to take off your gag. And if you try to bite me or grab me or anything, I'll hit you with this thing as hard as I can as many times as I can. Understood?

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

Your thoughts define the boundaries of your life. Think big.

The secret to my success is actually simple: I failed so many times that succeeding eventually became a mathematical certainty.

We all have scars, Wharick. Mine happen to be on the the outside, " Kathel answered but knew what he said wasn't entirely true. He bore scars on the inside as well.

The danger of venturing into uncharted waters is not nearly as dangerous as staying on shore, waiting for your boat to come in.

Music is the universal language, because it is the language of the universe.

Sometimes the further away the target, the less you have to try to get there.

When we procrastinate, we also put a hold on happiness.

Holding on to negative feelings and past circumstances is like placing a lock on your soul.

Life's journey is peppered with many bumps and pitfalls. If we make mountains out of each one, we will get nowhere.

Accept the good, however big or small, with no strings attached.

Being the best is rarely within our reach. Doing our best is always within our reach.

Literature is life.

A good book is not the same as a successful one.

Publishers are businesses and I don’t blame them for that. If they didn’t make money by publishing books, there wouldn’t be any books.

A novel must be judged on its merits, not on how hard the journey was to write it.

Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedies into works of art. I know of nothing more astonishing or more wonderful than this transformation.