You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The air seemed poisoned with fear and hatred. People eyed on another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A piece of literature can be many things but first of all it must capture its audience. You need to seduce people,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow… — 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
...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
Not evil. Moronic, which isn't quite the same thing. Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moron or a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Ponoćna palača drugi je roman koji sam objavio, 1994., i tvori, zajedno s Princem magle, Rujanskim svjetlima i Marinom, seriju "mladenačkih" romana… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
