Carlos Ruiz Zafon Way Quotations

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.

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.

Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act.

Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?

The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.

One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.

Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.

We all give up great expectations along the way.