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Books Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book…
- I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
- In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of…
- Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of…
- Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.
- In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
- After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while…
- I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.
- As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light…
- Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly…
- I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this…
- He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people...…
- Write," he said. "I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian. "No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them…
- I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a…
- The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things…
- My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by…
- A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right… — Margaret Atwood
- I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody under 40,'… — Margaret Atwood
- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on… — Norman Ralph Augustine