We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything. — 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
The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself.… — 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 think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over… — 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
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
Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I don't belong to any side. What's more, I think flags are nothing but painted rags that represent rancid emotions. Just seeing… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more… — 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 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 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
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
In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than… — 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
Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
If you think you’re the only person for whom life is painful, you’re wrong. And if you don’t mind letting yourself die… — 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
The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The… — 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
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
“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
