I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When a person really desire something, the whole universe help that person to realize hi dream. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I hate knowing about illness. Whenever I read a medical book, I immediately start to get all the symptoms. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“If I accept that a book must end, I will finish it tonight. What I am doing now is to postpone this… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I don't have a ready-made formula to apply when I embark on a new book, but my guiding principles are discipline, compassion… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I'm going to use… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think bridges have a special meaning in our life. I think a book is a bridge. Any type of art is… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The most important thing in all human relationships is conversation, but people don’t talk anymore, they don’t sit down to talk and… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
For many years I was trying to find answers only through books but then I realized that basically, life is about experience… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“This was the kiss I had waited for so long - a kiss born by the river of our childhood, when we… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I think we are afraid of each other when it comes to sex, because we read so much about sex, we talk… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You need to change yourself. The moment that you change yourself it is a gigantic step. And this is what I do.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
You dont choose your life; it chooses you. Theres no point asking why life has reserved certain joys or griefs, you just accept them… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To love is to be in communion with the other and to discover in that other the spark of God. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
It is not enough to dream of the Impossible Love - it is necessary to conquer it too. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer fall into… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
