Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes
The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.
I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.
When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.
A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.
Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
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.
I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.
It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.
A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.
Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows; it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.
The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.
How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.
Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.
Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?
Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?
-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.
It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.
Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.
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.
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.
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.