CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON QUOTES VI

Spanish novelist (1964- )

Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind


Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind

Tags: wisdom


Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Independent, Jun. 24, 2012

Tags: Los Angeles


Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Prisoner of Heaven

Tags: war


Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Angel's Game

Tags: history


I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Angel's Game


You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Shadow of the Wind