Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafón Spanish: is a Spanish novelist...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1964
CountrySpain
risk care
I was aware of the risks I was taking, but I did'nt care.
dream believe character
Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.
beautiful prayer order
Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends,myths, or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values , and rules with which to regulate a culture or a society.
age necks widows
Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.
cities knowing listening
... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belonged to one another, and to nobody else.
believe order breathe
Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
blood tears fiction
Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
running book reading
Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
dream awake our-lives
We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
truth long alive
that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
children book people
Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.
fall fire heaven
Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were doing and just stand by a window for hours, watching the performance, an endless curtain of tears falling from heaven.
prison
There are worse prisons than words.
wind shadow stories
All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind