Quotes About Zafon

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

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 it worked.

Darwin was a dreamer, I can assure you. No evolution or anything of the sort. For every one who can reason, I have to battle with nine orangutans.--Don Anacleto

This is emotional blackmail.' 'No, it's life.

An intellectual is some one who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensates for his inadequacies.

Nincs több jó s gonosz a világban, mint amennyit naivságból vagy irigységbÅ'l mi magunk képzelünk bele.

Bisogna leggere, Fernandito, perché non tutto nell'adolescenza è menarselo come un macaco.

Mr. Aguilar belonged to that race of privileged minds who are always right.

dicen los entendidos que el futuro de la literatura depende de las mujeres

Wann wollen Sie das gesehen habe?' 'Als Sie ihn unten im Café hypnotisiert haben. Sie beide sahen aus wie eine Königskobra und ein Kaninchen.

Fermín Romero de Torres, currently unemployed. Pleased to meet you.

after the classics what he most enjoyed were tales of crime, boudoir intrigue, and questionable conduct.

Carax had been involved in a duel in Père Lachaise cemetery.

La culpa y el remordimiento no tienen significado. Son sentimientos, emociones, no ideas.

A media perorata ya me había quedado en blanco, bien por efecto de la fórmula explosiva o por la pirotecnia gramatical desplegada por mi buen amigo.

Merceditas, no mentemos a la industria del misal, que es parte del problema y no de la solución.

Barceló signaled to a waiter of such remarkable decrepitude that he looked as if he should be declared a national landmark.

watching the steam rise from my clothes like a fleeing soul.

These people who see sin everywhere are sick in their souls and, if you really press me, in their bowels. The endemic condition of the Iberian saint is chronic constipation.

The gaslight radiating from this opening gave an ocher tone to the miasma that emanated from within.