Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

About Carlos Ruiz Zafon:

Carlos Ruiz Zafón is a Spanish novelist.
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Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Uno de los primeros recursos propios del escritor profesional que Isabella había aprendido de mí era el arte y la práctica de procrastinar. Todo veterano del oficio sabe que cualquier ocupación, desde afilar el lápiz hasta catalogar musarañas, ...

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the day women are allowed to learn to read and write the world will become ungovernable.

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It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

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You don't look well," he pronounced. "Indigestion," I replied. "From what?" "Reality." "Join the queue.

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Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend? -I can barely remember Lord's Prayer. -A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends,myths, or any type of literary device in or...

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You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

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Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.

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This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

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I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.

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I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.

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Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.

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A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity - or none at all - with which to analyze it and judge how to channel it.

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Ben invented mathematical theories that even he didn't manage to remember and wrote such bizarre tales of adventure that he ended up destroying them a week after they were finished, embarrassed at the thought that he had penned them.

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The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this p...

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And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of a book in which he had written the initial chapters of a story he would never be allowed to finish.

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Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.

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Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

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As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood calling out to a predator.

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Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in th...

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Author Bio

  • NameCarlos Ruiz Zafon
  • DescriptionSpanish writer
  • BornSeptember 25, 1964
  • CountrySpain
  • ProfessionWriter