Top 116 Quotes by Paulo Coelho

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

It's not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

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

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

The more violent the storm, the quicker it passes.

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

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere.

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