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
If you live your life fully, you will die only once. But if you are scared, fear will kill you day after day
Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over & over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, nothing else.
If you want to be faithful to someone, start by being faithful to yourself.
I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.
I want to continue being crazy; living my life the way I dream it, and not the way the other people want it to be.
Elegance is accepted and admired because it makes no effort to be elegant.
Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.
Why do we have to listen to our hearts?" "Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.
My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul.
It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.
I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.
In writing, I apply my feminine side and respect the mystery involved in creation.
The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.
I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.