Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafón Spanish: is a Spanish novelist...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1964
CountrySpain
people
I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.
people
I've always ignored the labels people put on things.
dream people remember
There are people you remember and people you dream of.
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)
people monkeys too-much
People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
laughter our-world people
Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to medieval savagery and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb...it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything and a lousy joke at that.
thinking judging people
I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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.
friendship people lots-of-friends
I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.
dream thinking people
Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
people age remember
That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.
people heaven would-be
If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.
people soul trying
People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.
air people silence
The air seemed poisoned with fear and hatred. People eyed on another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.