Way Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

18 Way quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Zafon's prose often drifts through labyrinthine streets, and here 18 excerpts map the twists of destiny. Expect a mix of melancholy and hope, perfect for readers who relish a literary stroll through mystery.

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It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.

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We all give up great expectations along the way.

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Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.

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. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger…

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Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put…

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Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

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The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The…

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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way…

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The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

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One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility…

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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…

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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man.…

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The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for…

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Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than…

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You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose…

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You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work…

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“Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it, and in the most pompous and pedantic…

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I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted…

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“I carried the trace of her lips, of her breath on my skin through streets full of faceless people escaping from offices and shops.”

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“nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds.”

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People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You,…

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“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…

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“Wise men think and speak alike.”

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“Time plays for the other team.”

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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…

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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and…

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Waiting is the rust of the soul.

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“The main pillar of organized religion, with few exceptions, is the subjugation, repression, even the annulment of women in the group. Woman must accept…

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