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" Music for me, it demands full concentration. "

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" I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe. "

" Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions. "

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

" 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. "

" My connection with Brazil is so abstract. My blood and my way of thinking is Brazilian, but that's it. I don't tend to go back to the past, and although I have an apartment there, I rarely visit. When I move, I really move. "

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

" Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony. "

" One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. "

" 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. "

" I don't go to parties in general. "

" 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. "

" Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that. "

" I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written. "

" 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. "

" Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. "

" 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. "

" I don't set out to write about spirituality; I am free to do something different every time. "

" There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Today, writers want to impress other writers. "

" Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground. "

" 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. "

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

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