Quotes from Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Don't learn how to find excuses for not writing before you learn how to write. That's a privilege of professionals and you have to earn it.

round lenses augmented them, and his pomaded

Am hot?rât c? existenÈ›a mea va fi una a c?rÈ›ilor È™i a t?cerii.

Dumneavoastr? v-aÅŸ putea spune c? e inima, îns? ceea ce-l ucide e singur?tatea. Amintirile sunt mai rele decât gloanÈ›ele.

a prosperous manufacturer of textile machinery who had built his fortune from nothing, by dint of great efforts and sacrifices, mostly other people's.

Let me remind you that you are talking to a professional in the craft of seduction, and this business of kissing is for amateurs and little old men in slippers. Real women are won over bit by bit.

This is a world of shadows, Daniel, and magic is a rare asset. That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely.

Me gusta pensar que la vida nos arrebata a los amigos de la infancia porque sí, pero no siempre me lo creo.

She explained how, during her years of exile in France, she and her cousin Claudette had shared a private tutor. He was a man in his fifties, a bit of a tippler, who affected literary airs and boasted of being able to recite Virgil's Aeneid in Latin without an accent. The girls had nicknamed him "Monsieur Roquefort

Remember: warm heart, cold mind. The seducer's code.

Quiza por eso la adoraba mas, por esa estupidez eterna de perseguir a los que nos hacen daño

A valóság sosem múlja felül az irodalmat, legalábbis a minÅ'segit nem.

Monsieur Roquefort frequently visited a secondhand bookstall positioned outside Notre-Dame. It was there, by chance, one afternoon in 1929, that he came across a novel by an unknown author, someone called Julián Carax.

I STILL REMEMBER THE DAY MY FATHER TOOK ME TO THE CEMETERY OF Forgotten Books for the first time. It was the early summer of 1945, and we walked through the streets of a Barcelona

Amigo mío- dijo al fin- . No pierda la esperanza. Si algo he aprendido en este perro mundo es que el destino siempre está a la vuelta de la esquina... Y si algún día decide usted ir a por él (porque lo que el destino no hace son visitas a domicilio), ya verá como le concederá una segunda oportunidad.

Al encontrar la puerta con el cartel de CERRADO, empezó a golpear el cristal con los puños. Fermín y Daniel intercambiaron una mirada. - Para que luego digan que en este país la gente no tiene ganas de comprar libros.

Podczas ulewnych deszczy zawsze miaÅ' wra?enie, ?e czas staje w miejscu. Jakby nastÄ™powaÅ'o zawieszenie, swego rodzaju antrakt, podczas którego mo?na byÅ'o spokojnie odÅ'o?y? to, co siÄ™ akurat robiÅ'o, by po prostu stan?? przy oknie i caÅ'ymi godzinami patrze? ze zdziwieniem na ten spektakl opadajÄ…cej bez koÅ"ca kurtyny Å'ez.

No sé qué me ha pasado. No te ofendas, pero a veces una se siente más libre de hablarle a un extraño que a la gente que conoce.

Nadie sobrevive una guerra civil con un ápice de dignidad del que presumir. Mi

Mire, yo en estos casos, y créame que tengo práctica, lo que siempre hago es rellenar la documentación con nombres sacados de la sobras del insigne Ramón María del Valle Inclán, porque está demostrado que tan fina pluma tiene poca incidencia en la lista de lecturas recomendadas por la Jefatura Superior de Policia y de esta guisa nadie se entera del cambiazo.

The critics had a field day writing Carax off in a few lines, advising him not to leave his employment as a pianist

The dreams began with that mysterious fever, which some blamed on the sting of a huge red scorpion that appeared in the house one day and was never seen again, and others on the evil designs of a mad nun who crept into houses at night to poison children and who, years later, was to be garroted reciting the Lord's Prayer backward with her eyes popping out of their sockets, while a red cloud spread over the town and discharged a storm of dead cockroaches.

Azért iszunk, hogy emlékezzünk, és azért írunk, hogy felejtsünk.

one is what one remembers.