Spanish novelist (1964- )
Once I'd worked out that I couldn't possibly expect people to enjoy a monstrous, 3000-page book, I realised I could in fact create a labyrinth of a story with four different points of entry. But what interested me was creating something that would rearrange itself every time you read one of the other books. So depending on which order you read them, the implications and angles would change. To get that right, each one of the books had to have its own personality and texture -- even though they are connected, they are very different creatures.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
"Carlos Ruiz Zafon's love letter to literature", New Zealand Listener, Mar. 14, 2013
Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Angel's Game
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind
Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Independent, Jun. 24, 2012
Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Prisoner of Heaven
I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Angel's Game
You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON
The Shadow of the Wind