Books Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“a story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Julian had once told me that a story is a letter the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“A story is a letter the author writes to himself”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

When someone writes to tell me something I've written made them laugh or cry, I've done my job and done it well. The rest…

— Len Wein

“Letters are, of course, quite special in my view, for when a reader has been sufficiently moved (or even perturbed) by a book to…

— Chinua Achebe

“The thing you don't realize, my dear girl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing very seriously.…

— Jack McClelland

It happened like this. I was stolen from an airport. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Taken to sand and…

— Lucy Christopher

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.

— Theodore Sturgeon

“Mara gave you my letter?" "Yes." "You must have been astonished." She had exposed her heart in that letter. His eyebrows shot up. "'Astonished'…

— Meljean Brook

And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London.

— Connie Willis

The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Sizing up succinctly his lack of formal education compared with his determination to learn from others, the author writes, "I went to college with…

— Chris Gardner