Quotes from zafon carlos ruiz iv

Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.

His curiosity and love of gossip, albeit with an academic slant, made even the loudmouthed women in the bazaar look like rank amateurs.

I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to handle me, because I was very sarcastic. I was over-confident, arrogant, a typical youngest child. I went through periods of withdrawing into myself and school psychologists tried to figure me out, work out why I didn't fit in. I found that irritating, too.

It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.

One never forgets faces one wholeheartedly detests.

Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.

For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.

You know who your true friends are when things go wrong for you, but the opposite is also true. When things go well, the people who really love you are happy.

I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of dragons (I have 400 of them). I only use Macintosh computers, which I name in dynastic order. Right now I'm using MacDragon 5. Only the devil is able to decipher my handwriting.