Carlos Ruiz Zafon Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Carlos Ruiz Zafon:

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.

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon