"I quarreled with every word, every phrase and……" — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write. I wrote and rewrote every line as if my life depended on it, and then rewrote it again."
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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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Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they…
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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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