"Are you not tempted to create a story……" — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and condemning themselves, of handling over their souls?"
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241 Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what…
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Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose…
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The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written…
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will…
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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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…
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that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
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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…
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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
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