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Writing Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
- I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
- A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
- I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power…
- 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.…
- 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 realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so…
- My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that…
- 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…
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