811 Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Memories are worse than bullets.

Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened,

I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.

The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.

Coincidences are the scars of fate.

I would go to newsstands and buy paperbacks they were selling for tourists, usually bestsellers and mass market paperbacks. In the beginning, it was like going to the Rosetta Stone--I didn?t understand anything, I'd get a headache--but I began to figure it out, and I'd read a lot of Stephen King paperbacks. I've always said he was my English professor.

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. So I would seek them out.

The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.