811 Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one’s heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

The wider the author’s arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.

You don’t win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

But in good time you’ll see that sometimes what matters isn’t what one gives but what one gives up.

You young people never say anything. And us old folks don’t know how to stop talking.

I don’t care what happens in 100 years. I won’t be around.

A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they’ll get scared.

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