Amazing Book Quotes:

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Dreams Can Come True, Hopes And Dreams

Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

- Shel Silverstein

source: Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”

topic: Inspiring, Children, Book, Inspirational Children, Children's Books

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

source: Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.2, Publishdrive

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beautiful, Insanity And Genius, Misunderstood Genius

There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

- Paulo Coelho

source: FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 08, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Impossible Dream, Inspirational Achievement

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Stopped Clock, Life Destiny

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

topic: Inspirational, Time, Powerful, Jazz Age, Great Literature

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

- Shel Silverstein

source: Shel Silverstein, “Listen To The Mustn'Ts”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Cute, Listen To Me, Inspirational Children

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.127, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Faith, Strong, Kings, Inspiring Movie, Travel Light

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Life, Happiness, Success, Conspiring, Alchemist Book

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Life Fate, Alchemy

Reading a poem is a real thing, a worthy thing. So to be there right with the reader at that moment is part of the effect of a title like "Poem for" something or other. Matt Rohrer does this a lot in his titles, and I think I might have gotten some of the idea to do this, or at least been reminded of how it can work, from his recent amazing books.

- Matthew Zapruder

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Real, Book, Reading, Worthy Things, Amazing Book

I don't even care what Bill Bryson writes about because he will make it interesting. I love "A Walk in the Woods," about the Appalachian Trail, but his most amazing book is "A Short History of Nearly Everything."

- Dave Barry

source: Source: www.bostonglobe.com

topic: Book, Writing, Interesting, Amazing Book, Appalachian Trail

That heartbreaking moment when you finish an amazing book, and you are forced to return to reality.

- Grace Paley

topic: Book, Reality, Heartbreaking, Amazing Book

One thing that is sometimes forgotten in this "future of books" discussion is that there are all these awesome presses - big and small - that are producing and designing amazing books.

- Kevin Sampsell

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Book, Design, Sometimes, Amazing Book

Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books are. Writers love writing books like this, and for some reason, we let them get away with it.

- Josh Lieb

source: Josh Lieb (2015). “Ratscalibur”, p.161, Penguin

topic: Book, Writing, People, Amazing Book

If you just read Joseph Campbell, who has written amazing books on mythology and religion, they all do come together at some point. There are some of the greatest stories that there have ever been in the Bible. All you have to do is read the book of Maccabi, it's like a film script.

- Mel Gibson

source: "Apocalypto - Mel Gibson interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

topic: Book, Together, Stories, Amazing Book

I've always tried to really focus on The Hunger Games movie, knowing that, yes, these are amazing books and I would feel like a failure, if I didn't get all three of them made.

- Nina Jacobson

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Book, Games, Knowing, Amazing Book