It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart. — 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
“Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it, and in the most pompous and pedantic… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich. — 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
The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way… — 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
They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man.… — 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
You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music, in terms of its rhythms and dynamics, the way you compress and expand the attention of a reader over a sentence, the way the tempo pushes you towards an image or sensation. We want an intense… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share
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
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
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
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
“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 labyrinth of a story with four different points of entry. But what interested me was creating something that would rearrange itself every time you read one of the other books. So depending on which order you… — 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 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 the role of an ethereal, passive, and maternal presence, never of authority or independence, or she will have to suffer the consequences. She might have a place of honor in the symbolism, but not in the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
