Paulo Coelho Quotes about Writing

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.

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

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

Creativity is basically a feminine process. I'm convinced that we have in our soul, everybody, this masculine side and this feminine side. So at the end of the day, you always use this feminine creative energy to write or to do any type of art or creativity. So if I see that my protagonist is feminine, it's not more difficult, no. And even when my protagonist is masculine, I'm writing from using this feminine energy.

Paulo Coelho

Art, Creativity, Writing

"Book Talk: Paulo Coelho on life, work and 'Adultery'". Interview with Lisa Von Ahn, www.reuters.com. November 13, 2014.

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

Paulo Coelho

Writing, Sadness, Remembrance

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

Paulo Coelho

Book, Writing, Soul

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

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

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

It took me 40 years to write my first book.

Paulo Coelho

Book, Writing, Years

I like to be challenged with language, so I start to do texts for my blogs that people can download, can spread. There is no commercial interest behind it. It's only for fun, like doing something that you really enjoy to do. I have texts that I write specifically for the internet and I put them there. I am interested in how readers also respond to the texts that I write to them.

Paulo Coelho

Fun, Writing, People

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

Paulo Coelho

Writing, Heart, Advice

Dreams are letters from the book your life is writing.

Paulo Coelho

Dream, Book, Writing

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 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.

Paulo Coelho

Book, Writing, Creating

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

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.

Paulo Coelho

Book, Writing, Years

"Book Talk: Paulo Coelho on life, work and 'Adultery'". Interview with Lisa Von Ahn, www.reuters.com. November 13, 2014.

I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of subjects to write about, you meet a lot of interesting people. But one idea will be there and it will show up without any logic. It is a book that has been written in my heart before it is written into sentences.

Paulo Coelho

Book, Writing, Heart

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

Paulo Coelho

Hurt, Writing, Soul

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

Writing means sharing. It's part of the human condition to want to share things - thoughts, ideas, opinions.

Paulo Coelho

Writing, Mean, Ideas

"Paulo Coelho: 'I had an enormous amount of fun being a hippy" by Shahesta Shaitly, www.theguardian.com. January 25, 2014.

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

Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even if I never do so again, I will at least know that I once had the courage to put my feelings into words.

Paulo Coelho

Writing, Feelings, Forget

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

Paulo Coelho

Writing, World, Solitary

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.

Paulo Coelho Quotes about Writing

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