"Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And……" — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity."
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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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Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose…
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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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