"I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in……" — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling."
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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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More Bookshop Quotes
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I have this fantasy. I'm walking past a bookshop and I click my fingers and all my books go blank.…
— John Banville
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A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a…
— David Almond
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My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much…
— Hilma Wolitzer
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A bookshop is powder-magazine, a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island…
— John Cowper Powys
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Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't…
— Frederick Busch
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A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.
— Virginia Woolf
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Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a…
— John Grisham
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I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on…
— Marilyn Hacker
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Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I…
— Henrietta Rose-Innes
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My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that…
— William Gibson
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what…
— Salman Rushdie
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I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some…
— Will Self
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