Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho de Souzais a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He is the recipient of numerous international awards, amongst them the Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. His novel The Alchemist has been translated into 80 languages. The author has sold over 200 million copies worldwide and is the all-time bestselling Portuguese language author...
NationalityBrazilian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth24 August 1947
CityRio de Janeiro, Brazil
CountryBrazil
Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.
People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.
My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level.
We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question.
Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
It took me 40 years to write my first book.
Music for me, it demands full concentration.
You should treat a muse like a fairy.
Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.
Everybody has a creative potential and from the moment you can express this creative potential, you can start changing the world.
We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.
Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.
When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple.