Quote

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Afraid
Common
Fear
Sense
Idiots
Anything
Idiot
Sign
Complete
Scared

More quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Image
I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Image
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Image
As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Image
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
Image
One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Image
Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Image
God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Image
It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Image
For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I don't think they would give my life meaning. I do think of the books as my children, though. Whatever is inside of me, I put into my books.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Image
It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Image
In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived among shadows and silence, lent that setting a slight air of promise in which at least children and those who had learned the art of forgetting could still believe.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Image
You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Image
Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Image
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Image
Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Image
The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Image
I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Image
I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Image
Memories are worse than bullets.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Image
I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon