You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. – Paulo Coelho
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
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act. – Paulo Coelho
In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity. – Paulo Coelho
The majority of writers ought to translate themselves; there are but few thoughts that are born translated, that is, clothed with the power best fitted alike to express and transmit them. What we have in the first instance written for ourselves, should be written a second time for others. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847), Literature. First Section: Literature in Gene