Paulo Coelho Quotes, Book Quotes, Writing Quotes

I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

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I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.

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Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

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Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.

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Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.

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Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.

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The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.

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I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it's a big effort these days. So I often write back.

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Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.

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Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

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I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from.

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The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

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And dazzling memory revive.Refresh the faded tints, Recut the aged prints, And write my old adventures, with the pen Which, on the first day, drew Upon the tablets blue The dancing Pleiads, and the eternal men.

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O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.

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I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the anti-apartheid years, became a 'cultural weapon.' You had to use it to fight apartheid & some of us resisted that in the end, you recognize that you are facing a government that has no scruples about using culture & art to oppress you.

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I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced.

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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.

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I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use. ... The machine has several virtues. I believe it will print faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper.

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When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

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It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.

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