Paulo Coelho

Date of Birth:

24-Aug-1947

Nationality:

Brazil

Profession:

Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian writer. When Coelho was 38, he had a spiritual awakening in Spain and wrote about it in his first book, The Pilgrimage. It was her second book, The Alchemist, that made her famous. He has sold 35 million copies and now writes about one book every two years. Coelho was born on August 24, 1947, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Coelho attended Jesuit schools and was raised by devout Catholic parents. She decided early on that she wanted to be a writer but was disappointed by her parents, who had no future in the profession in Brazil. Coelho's teenage uprising prompted her parents to give her three times asylum, starting when she was 17. "Excuse me," Coelho said. "It happens with love, all the time - when you have this love for someone, but you want that person to change, to be like you. And then love can be very hurtful." In 1987, Coelho wrote a new book, The Alchemist, during the compilation of one of the two weekly errors. The proverbial novel was about a Andalusian shepherd boy following a mysterious journey where he learned to speak "The Language of the World" and thus found his heart's desire. The book attracted little attention at first, until it was suddenly translated into French languages by French traders lists in the early 1990s.

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Paulo Coelho

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QUOTES BY Paulo Coelho

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality.

I don't go to parties in general.

I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.

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

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

All women have a perception much more developed than men. So all women somehow, being repressed for so many millennia, they ended up by developing this sixth sense and contemplation and love. And this is something that we have a hard time to accept as part of our society.

Everything for me is sacred, beginning with earth, but also going to things made by man.

No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.