A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Write," he said. "I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian. "No. Not to me. Write books. Not… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Life isn't like a novel, you know. In life you have to take sides. And it's clear which side you've chosen.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Well, this is a story about books.” “About books?” “About accursed books, about the man who wrote them, about a character who… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“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 Zafón Copy Share Image
I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“... Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share
“I carried the trace of her lips, of her breath on my skin through streets full of faceless people escaping from offices and shops.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
“Nekada davno, u djetinjstvu, možda is toga što sam odrastao među knjigama i knjižarima, odlučio sam da želim postati pisac i živjeti životom punim… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
“nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share
“But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
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 create a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share
“The main pillar of organized religion, with few exceptions, is the subjugation, repression, even the annulment of women in the group. Woman must accept… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share
“Darwin was a dreamer, I can assure you. No evolution or anything of the sort. For every one who can reason, I have to… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
