Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

About Carlos Ruiz Zafon:

Carlos Ruiz Zafón is a Spanish novelist.
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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.

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Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.

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One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.

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Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?

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Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived.

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Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by.

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1My father says a hunch is your brain’s way of taking a short cut to the truth,’ replied Max. ‘He’s a wise man, your father. What else does he say?’ ‘That the more you try to hide from the truth, the quicker it finds you.

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[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.

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He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ...

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I've learnt that solitude is sometimes a path that leads to peace

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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.

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Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.

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I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably...

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Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

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I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

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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.

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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 someb...

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In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.

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Author Bio

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