Book Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“...in truth, books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody's best friend.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. "How does one choose a single book among so many?" Isaac shrugged his…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“This is a place of mystery, Daniel, a sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Never before had I felt trapped, seduced, and caught up in a story,' Clara explained, 'the way I did with that book.…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Once I'd worked out that I couldn't possibly expect people to enjoy a monstrous, 3000-page book, I realised I could in fact…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost.…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you,” answered Julián.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Books are like mirrors , you only see in them what you already have inside you”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers;…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost.…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon