Paulo Coelho Quotes, Life Quotes, Writing Quotes

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.

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I have not always been wrong. History will bear me out, particularly as I shall write that history myself.

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Of all the alchemies of human connection-sex and childbirth and marriage and friendship-the strangest is this: You can stand up and tell a story that is made entirely, embarrassingly, of "I's," and a listening audience somehow turns each "I" into a "me." This alchemy, of self-absorption into shared experience, is the alchemy of all literature.

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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.

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I'm just writing love songs. I'm not trying to be pop. I'm not trying to be jazz. I'm not trying to be anything. I'm just writing love songs. And everyone loves a love song.

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When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

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A book calls for pen, ink, and a writing desk; today the rule is that pen, ink, and a writing desk call for a book.

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I write because I need to share my thoughts with the audience.

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Writing fulfils an insatiable drive. Finishing the story satisfies my thirst. But I must keep drinking until the story quenches a buyer.

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I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes.

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I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine.

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My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.

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That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

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Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.

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I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

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How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?

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I started writing when I was about thirteen.

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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

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Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

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