Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafón Spanish: is a Spanish novelist...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1964
CountrySpain
telling-the-truth mood foul
I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
hurt truth-is
The truth is what hurts
country useless truth-is
Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.
world telling-the-truth this-world
Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.
lying numbers telling-the-truth
There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
truth book mirrors
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
truth long alive
that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
entire rains size spend thunder time year
I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.
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.
angeles came fantastic liked los mind places
I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
complex consider demands devices elements enhance forces infinitely influenced narrative regarding work
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.
industry
With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.
people
I've always ignored the labels people put on things.
critical explore paying sorts voracious
I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.