Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafón Spanish: is a Spanish novelist...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1964
CountrySpain
wind shadow shadow-of-the-wind
When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
girl needs approval
Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.
laughter our-world bombs
Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.
believe order breathe
Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
wise silence idiot
Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.
years care happens
I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.
blood tears fiction
Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
lying numbers telling-the-truth
There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
dirty thinking want
-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
book believe people
Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
justice world illness
Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.
sweet heart greed
One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
writing expression lines
I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write. I wrote and rewrote every line as if my life depended on it, and then rewrote it again.
dog thinking mind
If you think you’re the only person for whom life is painful, you’re wrong. And if you don’t mind letting yourself die like a dog, at least have the decency to remember that there are those of us who do care – although, to tell the truth, I don’t see why?