When you are enthusiastic about what you do you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.
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.
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.
Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.
Music for me it demands full concentration.
If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.
I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure but no good explanation for success.
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.