Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafón Spanish: is a Spanish novelist...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1964
CountrySpain
kids mirrors air
All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.
humble intellectual experts
He (Intellectuals) claims that label to compensate for his own inadequacies. It's as old as that saying: tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack. Our daily bread. The incompetent always present themselves as experts, the cruel as pious, sinners as excessively devout, usurers as benefactors, the small-minded as patriots, the arrogant as humble, the vulgar as elegant and the feeble-minded as intellectual.
hands brain spirit
I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.
loneliness going-away
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
swim tides annoying
I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
army four-horsemen-of-the-apocalypse wind
Army, Marriage, the Church, and Baking: the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse. Fermin Romero de Torres - The Shadow of the Wind.
giving-up what-matters good-times
But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.
book reading writing
You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music, in terms of its rhythms and dynamics, the way you compress and expand the attention of a reader over a sentence, the way the tempo pushes you towards an image or sensation. We want an intense experience, so that we can forget ourselves when we enter the world of the book. When you are reading, the physical object of the book should disappear from your hands.
dream book two
In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.
art hate
To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
fall fortune seeing
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
talking people say-anything
You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
giving-not-receiving merit giving-back
Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
blow people suffering
Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.