Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafón Spanish: is a Spanish novelist...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1964
CountrySpain
heart nonsense
You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.
character soul answers
His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That all his characters were himself.
father book firsts
I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
inspirational money hard
Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
memories ocean book
I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.
art book fate
In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.
dream betrayal book
Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of the pages of anovel so that he could burn it, about a betrayal and a lost friendship. It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind." You talk like the jacket blurb of a Victorian novel, Daniel." That's probably because I work in a bookshop and I've seen too many. But this is a true story.
world prejudice opinion
In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
running book reading
Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
long remember
We exist as long as somebody remembers us.
thinking people world
We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008)
home destiny visits-you
Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.
people monkeys too-much
People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
believe willing
We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.