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" 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. "

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" I have been practicing archery for a long time; a bow and arrow helps me to unwind. "

" The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions. "

" I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness. "

" Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I'm going to use it, to connect to them and to share thoughts that I cannot use in the book. "

" MySpace is my wife... Facebook is my mistress. "

" Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife. "

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

" I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. "

" The only thing that relaxes me is archery. That's why I have to have apartments with gardens. "

" MySpace is an addiction. "

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" I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge. "

" No one can lie, no one can hide anything, when he looks directly into someone's eyes. "

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

" Beauty is the greatest seducer of man. "

" I've done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price - which has been the case most of the time. "

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

" However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have. "

" Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure. "

" The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality - it connects you to reality. "

" You're always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort. "

" I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success. "

" Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age. "

" 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. "

" Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military. "

" Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility. "

" I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul. "

" I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world. "

" It's very difficult to read a book on your computer. "

" What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I'm someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself. "