Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafón Spanish: is a Spanish novelist...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1964
CountrySpain
heart childhood mind
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.
inspirational running book
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
giving devil world
God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil....
book owners shadow-of-the-wind
In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
football wall book
After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.
writing stories letters
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
thinking judging people
I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
stupid epidemics stupidity
This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
dream awake our-lives
We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
animal men skills
Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
reality impossible states
It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.
children book people
Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.
fall fire heaven
Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were doing and just stand by a window for hours, watching the performance, an endless curtain of tears falling from heaven.
prison
There are worse prisons than words.