Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafón Spanish: is a Spanish novelist...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1964
CountrySpain
art war ambition
Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.
thinking forever moments
The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
art cities paris
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
time taught too-much
Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
book dust hands
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.
children memories heart
The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.
remember let-me-go ifs
Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
thinking people wish
. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
needs electricity shock
Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.
dream
One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.
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.