Paulo Coelho Quotes

I'm far less a leader than a writer.

If you let other people's vision get between the world and your own, you will achieve that extremely common and worthless thing, a pictorial photograph.

To me, writing is about how we see. The writers I want to read teach me how to see-see the world differently. In my writing there is no separation between how I observe the world and how I write the world. We write through our eyes. We write through our body. We write out of what we know.

Fundamentally, I think of myself as a storyteller, not a writer.

I think of myself as a storyteller.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

I've always considered myself, at the end of the day, to be kind of a storyteller.

Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.

I am definitely a storyteller, but probably not a traditional Storyteller.

I don't believe that my first name is Leo or that my last name is Tolstoy. I'm a storyteller.

I'm a storyteller who wants to tell untold, meaningful, universal stories in unforgettable ways. I want to do it all, study it all, and find my place in it.

I'm a lover of film and storytelling. I believe that I was put on earth to tell stories, and I'm not interested in telling the same stories over and over and over again.

The first step toward changing the world is to change our vision of the world and of our place in it.

Photography... is either an expression of a cosmic vision, an embodiment of a life movement or it is nothing - to me. (1919)

[Writers are] the highest paid secretaries in the world.

If your vision of the world is of a certain kind you will put poetry in everything, necessarily.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

Writing stories is a kind of magic, too.

The thing that made me turn more towards writing was realizing how hard it was going to be to get a singular vision on film and how much more control I would have if I were writing novels.

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

And this is the best success I can dream for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.

I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.

I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white.

Art should never be sociological; it has got to be timeless. It's got to be your vision and how you can represent the world you see.

One of the reasons I love making movies is because it's an opportunity to share with the world a different way of being or a different way of living or seeing the world. If it's something you've already seen before, if I have too many reference points for it, then it's not exciting for me to make.