“Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
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 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
“Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Myths and legends, either about divinities or the formation and history of peoples and races, began to look like pictures on a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
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
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
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 teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Martin, fables are possibly one of the most interesting literary forms ever invented. Do you know what they teach us? Moral lessons?… — 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
“[Fables] teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable diminishing… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón 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
“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
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