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24 quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Ruiz and the second or maternal family name is Zafón. Carlos Ruiz Zafón Spanish: ['karlos 'rwiθ θa'fon] (born Barcelona, 25 September 1964) is a Spanish novelist.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a... →

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Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the... →

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Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.

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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels... →

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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in... →

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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 ideas.... →

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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

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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 that... →

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With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers;... →

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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 mixed with Balzac.... →

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When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how... →

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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or... →

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