Today’s Question by Aart Hilal

by Paulo Coelho on February 14, 2008

Veronica Decides To Die, The Alchemist, The Manual of the Warrior of Light, all your books have strange characters, people with a strong personality and very lively. Are they inspired by reality?

Yes, but reality has characters far more strangers than Veronika or Santiago.

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g (uk) February 18, 2008 at 5:37 am

seemingly ordinary people have extraordinary characters; it’s a matter of digging and finding.
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agnieszka February 15, 2008 at 5:22 pm

Dear Paulo,

First of all I don’t think that these characters are strange, they’re different and that is so much more interesting.
They have strong personalities, vivid imagination, and something exciting, complex yet simple, that makes you want to know them more and more.
Knowing that they’re all You, in a different stages, moments, of Your life makes it even more fascinating to read.

love
Agnieszka

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