Famous Quotes and Comments by Paulo Coelho

So for the question I go to the mystery of it and say I don’t know. I only know that I am alive and there is something that manifests in my life, that it is God and one day I am going to understand my life, probably in the day that I die, or afterwards. But I try to find good questions and not good answers.
Paulo Coelho

I do believe that everything we see, everything that is in front of us is just the visible part of reality. We have the invisible part of reality, like emotions for example, like feelings. This is our perception of the world, but God is--as William Blake said--in a grain of sand and in a flower. This energy is everywhere.
Paulo Coelho

Yes, there was a moment when I was writing The Alchemist that I thought I had been trapped in the writing because, in fact, I wrote The Alchemist in fifteen days. Not fifteen days, but thirty-nine years and fifteen days. Picasso probably was poor. (Laughs.) And there was a moment in The Alchemist when the boy has to change himself into the wind, and when I reached that moment, I thought, I don't know how to end this part of the book. But, in fact, the book wrote itself, and I had it. So I think, for me, this is not a favorite part, but I remember it as clear as the day that it was -- the most difficult moment in writing it and that the universe conspired to help me.
Paulo Coelho

I begin with two hundred dollars in my pocket, and I arrive in Mexico city with one hundred dollar left, so... it was quite a fantastic experience because at that time I didn't speak English at all. But there was a solidarity among young people that, well, helped me cross this country and go that far. So, that was it.
Paulo Coelho



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