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" I tweet in the morning and the evening. To write 12 hours a day, there is a moment when you're really tired. It's my relaxing time. "
Paulo Coelho
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" I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed. "
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" The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe. "
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" I am 100 per cent Virgo, stubborn, over-organised, slightly abstracted from the rest of the world. "
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" Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right. "
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" When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It's very simple. "
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" People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open. "
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" 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. "
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" When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it. "
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" It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. "
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" I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money. "
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" My readers - and I get 400 emails for a day, my readers normally they say, well, you understand me, and I answer, you do understand me also. We are in the same level. "
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" My literature is much more the result of a paradox than that of an implacable logic, typical of police novels. The paradox is the tension that exists in my soul. "
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" The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens. "
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" About the idea of a clash between cultures, between civilisations, I don't believe in it. It's something some political leaders tried to use, and that the media tried and are still trying to sell us, in order to simplify the world and their work. "
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" I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one. "
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" If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it. "
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