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
Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story,… — 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
The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
His soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
As readers, we want not only a strong story, but also characters we can relate to, characters that feel real. We have… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón 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 on. You,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“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 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 create a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
