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Coelho wrote ''The Alchemist'' in only two weeks in 1987. He explained that he was able to write at this pace because the story was "already written in [his] soul."<ref name="PoolTime">{{cite web|last=Pool|first=Hannah|title=Question time|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/mar/19/paulo-coelho-interview|work=The Guardian|accessdate=2012-01-27|date=2009-03-19}}</ref>
The book's main theme is about finding one's [[destiny]], although according to ''[[The New York Times]]'', ''The Alchemist'' is "more self-help than literature."<ref name="CowlesList">{{cite web|last=Cowles|first=Gregory|title=Inside the List|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/books/review/InsideList-t.html?scp=6&sq=the%20alchemist%20paulo%20coelho&st=cse|work=The New York Times|accessdate=2012-01-28|date=2009-10-08}}</ref> The advice given Santiago that "when you really want something to happen, the whole universe will conspire so that your wish comes true" is the core of the novel's philosophy and a motif that plays throughout it.<ref>{{cite web|last=Flanagan|first=Mark|title=The Alchemist|url=http://contemporarylit.about.com/od/philosophyreligion/fr/the-alchemist.htm}}</ref>
''The Alchemist'' was first released by Rocco,<ref>[http://www.ple.uem.br/defesas/pdf/iloliveira.pdf Retrieved 2019-05-16.]</ref> an obscure Brazilian publishing house. Albeit having sold "well," the publisher after a year decided to give Coelho back the rights.<ref name="GRInterview">{{cite web|title=Interview with Paulo Coelho|url=http://www.goodreads.com/interviews/show/2.Paulo_Coelho|work=Goodreads.com|accessdate=2012-01-27|date=March 2008}}</ref> Needing to "heal" himself from this setback, Coelho set out to leave Rio de Janeiro with his wife and spent 40 days in the [[Mojave Desert]]. Returning from the excursion, Coelho decided he had to keep on struggling<ref name="GRInterview"/> and was "so convinced it was a great book that [he] started knocking on doors."<ref name="PoolTime"/>
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