Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafón Spanish: is a Spanish novelist...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1964
CountrySpain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon quotes about
waiting soul rust
Waiting is the rust of the soul.
book tradition passports
Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.
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.
world looks virtuous
The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
life people lesson-learned
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
people disappear
People only disappear when they have somewhere to go
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.
truth long alive
that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
song believe thinking
We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music
men talking monologues
I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.
wise men coward
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
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.
people
I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.
angeles came fantastic liked los mind places
I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.