Habol Ng Habol Quotes & Sayings

When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long for me to write this book?" Because my dream, since I was 10 years old, was to be a writer. I said, I have to revisit my life using a metaphor, and the metaphor was basically this boy that has a dream and has to go far away to realize that his dream is close to him. — Paulo Coelho

I grew up an only child, which means you can look at my toys - I'll show them off, in fact - but god help you if you lay a finger on them. — Lime Craven

I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now. — John Edensor Littlewood

The lives and deaths of characters in stories and poems, however tragic, help us to learn about the world and - if we are brave enough - to change it. — Nicola Morgan

Mike was right: the pattern of life isn't a straight line; it crosses and recrosses, drawing in and tying together other lives, as I do when I gather in the ends of my thread to make a knot. — Benedict Freedman