Brazilian - Novelist | August 24, 1947 -
I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time.
Paulo Coelho
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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.
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Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
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There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.
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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.
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I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.
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Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.
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I'm not a person that socializes very well.
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Music for me, it demands full concentration.
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Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.
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Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
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I was arrested three times and tortured once.
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