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. – Paulo Coelho
Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way. – Paulo Coelho
Beauty is the greatest seducer of man. – Paulo Coelho
We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. – Paulo Coelho
Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age. – Paulo Coelho
Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle. – Paulo Coelho
Every day we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. – Paulo Coelho