Saul Williams Quotes

Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.

You can find inspiration when you're not even looking for it.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

I never try to look for love but sometimes it finds me.

After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether it's strolling down the aisles of a bookshop with no idea whatsoever of what it is that we want to read and suddenly finding the most perfect, most wonderfully suitable book staring us right in the face. Unblinking. Or a chance meeting with a stranger or friend who recommends a book we would never ordinarily reach for. Books have the ability to find their own way into our lives.

The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

He was an answer to a question she'd forgotten to ask.

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

Ooo,” said Alexia, fascinated, “it shrinks back down again. The books didn't detail that occurrence.” The earl laughed. “You must show me these books of yours.

I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything.

Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at; they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship.

Things happen in weird, serendipitous ways.

What's so great about inspiration is sometimes it finds you when you're not looking.

I do like not knowing where I'm going, wandering in strange woods, whistling and following bread crumbs.

It's funny. You travel all over the world, and you wind up with a guy from your hometown.

When magic happens, it just happens, brother.

It's a really neat and special coincidence, but it's nothing but a coincidence. This wasn't set up to give Matt that honor. It's just the way it worked out. It's a neat extra.

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.

The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy. And that love could fill the real world with magic.

Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.