In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónTags: barcelona european-novelists literary-tradition literature-in-translation
that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónTags: inspirational truth
Una de las trampas de la infancia es que no hace falta comprender algo para sentirlo. Para cuando la razón es capaz de entender lo sucedido, las heridas en el corazón ya son demasiado profundas.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónOdiar de veras es un talento que se aprende con los años
Carlos Ruiz ZafónLos regalos se hacen por el gusto del que regala, no por mérito del que recibe.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónWell, this is a story about books."
About books?"
About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of the pages of anovel so that he could burn it, about a betrayal and a lost friendship. It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind."
You talk like the jacket blurb of a Victorian novel, Daniel."
That's probably because I work in a bookshop and I've seen too many. But this is a true story.
You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónTags: youth
Miłość jest jak wędlina: jest salami i jest mortadela.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónPresents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónA secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónTags: secrets
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