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Today’s Question by Aart Hilal

Author: Paulo Coelho

One can argue that your books are about the journey within. But is there also a travel book lurking in you somewhere? Any particular place you would like to write about? Any particular travel memory that has stayed with you/made a big impact on you?

I’m a pilgrim writer and that inevitably appears in the way my characters deals with space. I’m in constant movement and very often I find that my characters need to equally find themselves in a journey. I believe that we are constantly experiencing transformation and that’s why we need to let life guide us. That’s what the main character in The Witch of Portobello, Athena, for instance, does: she runs the world in order to discover herself.

The physical journey mimics the psychological one in the sense that it’s only through this experience that she is able to grasp the deeper meaning of her life, the reason for her wanderings.

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