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
mean certainty-of-death void
It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.
order forget-you forget
I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.
waste up-to-you too-short
It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.
boredom towns news
In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
book believe soul
I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins who want to tell us what is good and what is bad. Every book has a soul ... and I believe every book is worth saving from either bigotry or oblivion.
writing tales died
I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
kings stones tourists
I would go to newsstands and buy paperbacks they were selling for tourists, usually bestsellers and mass market paperbacks. In the beginning, it was like going to the Rosetta Stone--I didn?t understand anything, I'd get a headache--but I began to figure it out, and I'd read a lot of Stephen King paperbacks. I've always said he was my English professor.
mistake men thinking
Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.
remember
I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
men cities barcelona
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.
faces never-forget forget
One never forgets faces one wholeheartedly detests.
book writing school
The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult fiction, and because of this it became a very successful book, and right now it's some sort of a standard title, it's read widely in many high schools in Spain, so I think, in a way, I was a victim of my own success in the field of young adult fiction, because it was never my own natural register. I never intended to write that kind of fiction, but I became very successful at it.
hands television world
Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.
los-angeles
Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.