Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafón Spanish: is a Spanish novelist...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1964
CountrySpain
passion light ideas
A piece of literature can be many things but first of all it must capture its audience. You need to seduce people, entice them into a world of beauty and horror, light and shadow, of passion, of romance, of mystery. That's the magic of it. Beyond that, of course, you can open a dialogue about the ideas which interest you, but first of all you absolutely must get inside people's minds.
world lightning thunder
Thunder and lightning, it's like the end of the world.
hope soul faster
Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
desire puppets subconscious
We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
frightened deep-down
... deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.
thinking mad madmen
Madmen always think it's the others who are mad.
thinking world streets
I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking, I wouldn't notice that the world I thought I knew was no longer there.
book reading sight
That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.
believe temptation wanted
Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.
There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.
world
The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
people age remember
That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
coffee thinking wings
I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.
thinking feelings sometimes
Sometimes feeling and thinking are one and the same.