Is it true that you always look for a white feather before you start writing? I think the more information you can get, the better you can find information for your own purposes.

I am interested in how readers also respond to the texts that I write to them.ĭoes it trouble you that the wealth of information also brings less credibility with it? I have texts that I write specifically for the internet and I put them there. It’s only for fun, like doing something that you really enjoy to do. There is no commercial interest behind it. I like to be challenged with language, so I start to do texts for my blogs that people can download, can spread. It is a way that they can voice their opinion. So the virtual world is a way for me to listen to my readers and interact with my readers. People are reading more and writing more now because of the internet. It’s a new platform and as a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. Well I’d say you are bridging cultures with your online presence – you have 28,5 million Facebook Likes, 11 million Twitter followers, and you have been blogging since 2006. 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. As long as you still have one bridge left, nothing is lost. I feel it’s my duty as a human being, as a person who is trying – like everybody else who thinks about the state of the world – to enhance the importance of this multicultural connection. It seems that nobody is capable of understanding each other anymore. And then I became interested.ĭo you feel like we have more bridges between cultures today than in the past? When I started writing I started seeing this input manifesting itself. We selected something that you either like or you don’t like. We did not select music that we were going to hear out of political correctness. Were you raised with that kind of approach?Īs a child I was influenced by many different inputs and cultures – Arabic, Jewish, American – and I became interested like this. Like Tolstoy says: everything that happens in a village happens everywhere. You’re there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages. You are not there to write only about your village. Coelho, are you interested in building bridges between cultures?įor a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds.

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