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
And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.
Everyday God gives us a moment in which it is possible to change everything that makes us unhappy.
He had to choose between something he had become accustomed to and something he wanted to have.
God only rarely reveals the future. When he does so, it is for one reason: it's a future that was written so as to be altered.
But love is much like a dam; if you allow a tiny crack to form through which only a trickle of water can pass, that trickle will quickly bring down the whole structure and soon no one will be able to control the force of the current.
Whenever he saw the sea, or a fire, he fell silent, impressed by their elemental force.
If you're a nobody, if your work has no impact, then it deserves to be praised. If, however, you climb out of that state of mediocrity and are a success, then your defying 'the law' and deserve to be punished.
If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.
I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.