"Walking is almost as important as breathing, for me."
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"Walking helps me a lot to feel alive, and I do this every single day, my wife and I. We have long conversations about nature, and we also walk silently, just contemplating."
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"You have two types of writers: one like Proust who was locked in his room and wrote the masterpiece. And the other type was Hemingway who celebrated life and also wrote a masterpiece."
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"You need to change yourself. The moment that you change yourself it is a gigantic step. And this is what I do. The book is much more important than the writer."
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"I write because I need to share my thoughts with the audience."
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"I don't choose. Normally it's the book that chooses me."
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"As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them."
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"As long as you still have one bridge left, nothing is lost. But from the moment that you cannot even understand the storytelling or the music of other cultures anymore, then we become strangers to each other and the situation will become very complicated."
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"I am living here and now. The blessing of my life is that I am totally concentrating on the present moment. And I want to be because there is nothing but the present moment."
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"To dream is not enough, you have to fulfill your dream."
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"For many years I was trying to find answers only through books but then I realized that basically, life is about experience and the thing that you have to do is experience life instead of only reading about it. Reading is very important, but it's not enough. After reading, you have to take some decisions in your hands and move forward and be the human being that you are, and then going and meeting people and work."
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"Every new book is a challenge. I could, of course, have stopped many years ago if it was only for money. But no, it is about building bridges among cultures, different cultures... When you want someone to understand something that is not forcefully in your culture, you use stories."
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"Brazil is my way to see the world. Being born in that country means: "you don't have a wall separating the physical reality from the magical reality.""
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"Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written."
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