Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.”

“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.”

“I've always ignored the labels people put on things.”

“Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.”

“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'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.”

“With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectations from the book industry and from readers; it's natural.”

“The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.”

“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.”

“In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.”