Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafón Spanish: is a Spanish novelist...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1964
CountrySpain
life people lesson-learned
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
people disappear
People only disappear when they have somewhere to go
memories father book
Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.
truth long alive
that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
song believe thinking
We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music
men talking monologues
I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.
wise men coward
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
lonely confused taken
...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.
swim tides annoying
I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
children book kids
For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.