Paulo Coelho

Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost? ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#ask #critics #does #dog #dogs

We want to answer this classical question, who am I? So I think that most of our works are for art, or whatever we do, including science or religion, tried to answer that question. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#answer #art #classical #i #i think

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#kind #knowing #not knowing #painful #suffering

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

— Paulo Coelho

#consign #hell #love #paradise #somewhere

Music for me, it demands full concentration. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#demands #full #me #music

You drown not by falling into a river, but by staying submerged in it. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#falling #into #river #staying #submerged

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#demons #economists #everything #politicians #possible

MySpace is an addiction. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#myspace

I'm not a person that socializes very well. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#person #very #well

I was arrested three times and tortured once. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#i #once #three #times #tortured