Paulo Coelho Quotes

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

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I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
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Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.
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Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.
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I never say I am a guru.
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In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
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Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
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Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
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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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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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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