Paulo Coelho Quotes About Writing

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  Tears are words that need to be written.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Sad

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 15, 2014

• Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public

  Paulo Coelho

  Art, Writing, Poetry

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 09, 2011

• It took me 40 years to write my first book.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Writing, Years

• That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Sadness, Remembrance

• I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Thinking, Soul

• When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Intelligent, Frustrated

• Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Writing, Soul

• This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up until now: restlessness, uncertainty, lies. And in the place of all this you will write the word courage.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lying, Book, Teaching

• No one can learn to love by following a manual, and no one can learn to write by following a course. I'm not telling you to seek out other writers but to find people with different skills from yourself, because writing is no different from any other activity done with joy and enthusiasm.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Writing, Skills

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

• I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not me, if I was pretending to be someone else, then this could unbalance my world, but I know who I am.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hurt, Writing, Who I Am

• I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Heart, Advice

• I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me.

  Paulo Coelho

  Hurt, Writing, Soul

• Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, World, Solitary

• If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Alchemist, Luck

  Paulo Coelho (1998). “The Alchemist - 10th Anniversary Edition”, HarperSanFrancisco

• Where are they written?" "In the world around us. Merely be attentive to what happens in your life, and you will discover where, every moment of the day, He hides His words and His will. Seek to do as He asks: this alone is the reason you are in the world." "If I discover it, I'll write it on clay tablets." "Do so. But write them, above all, in your heart; there they can neither burned nor destroyed, and you will take them wherever you go.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Heart, Clay

• I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books.

  Paulo Coelho

  Book, Writing, Want

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “Like the Flowing River: Thoughts and Reflections”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

• I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Years, Enlightenment And Love

• When I was 40, I wrote my first book, The Pilgrimage, and I said to myself, "why did it take so long for me to write this book?" Because my dream, since I was 10 years old, was to be a writer. I said, I have to revisit my life using a metaphor, and the metaphor was basically this boy that has a dream and has to go far away to realize that his dream is close to him.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Book, Writing

  "Interview with Paulo Coelho: best selling author of The Alchemist". Interview with Amina Chaudary, theislamicmonthly.com. November 3, 2014.

• I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Thinking, Expression

• For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Different, Culture

• Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Book, Writing

• As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Use, Internet

• I only write to understand myself better... I don't try to show how intelligent or how cultivated I am, I just try to share my soul. Sharing is part of life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Writing, Intelligent, Soul

• I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lonely, Book, Writing

• People are reading more and writing more because of the internet. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. It is a way that they can voice their opinion.

  Paulo Coelho

  Reading, Writing, Voice

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