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
I don't go to parties in general.
There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.
I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.
I was arrested three times and tortured once.
Today, writers want to impress other writers.
The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.
Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?
MySpace is an addiction.
I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.
Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.
If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.