Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafón Spanish: is a Spanish novelist...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1964
CountrySpain
men age vices
A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
writing expression lines
I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write. I wrote and rewrote every line as if my life depended on it, and then rewrote it again.
entire rains size spend thunder time year
I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
lonely confused taken
...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.
wise men coward
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
song believe thinking
We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music
memories father book
Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.
dream
One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.
life people lesson-learned
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
children memories heart
The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.
needs electricity shock
Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.
dream book soul
Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.
book tradition passports
Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.
waiting soul rust
Waiting is the rust of the soul.