Quotes by Paulo Coelho

About Paulo Coelho:

Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. He is the recipient of numerous international awards, amongst them the Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. The Alchemist, his most famous novel, has been translated into 80 languages. The author has sold 210 million copies worldwide (as for June 2015) and is the all-time bestselling Portuguese language author ( Lista de livros mais vendidos) .
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

Paulo Coelho

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost?

Paulo Coelho

I don't try to control my days.

Paulo Coelho

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

Paulo Coelho

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.

Paulo Coelho

I never say I am a guru.

Paulo Coelho

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

Paulo Coelho

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

Paulo Coelho

I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.

Paulo Coelho

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

Paulo Coelho

I was arrested three times and tortured once.

Paulo Coelho

I have spent every New Year's Eve since 1992 in Lourdes. I spend the hour of my birth every year in the grotto. It's a place with meaning for me.

Paulo Coelho

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.

Paulo Coelho

I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.

Paulo Coelho

I can't consciously explain how people feel after reading my books. All is too personal.

Paulo Coelho

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

Paulo Coelho

I don't go to parties in general.

Paulo Coelho

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.

Paulo Coelho

Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I'm going to use it, to connect to them and to share thoughts that I cannot use in the book.

Paulo Coelho

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

Paulo Coelho

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

Paulo Coelho

Author Bio

  • NamePaulo Coelho
  • DescriptionBrazilian lyricist and novelist
  • BornAugust 24, 1947
  • CountryBrazil
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Blogger; Actor; Composer
  • AwardsGolden Feather; Knight Of The Legion Of Honour