“You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but sometimes a book should remain a book. I still believe nothing tells a story with the richness and complexity of a good novel. When people say they think a book would make a good movie, they say this sometimes because, if it worked, they already saw all the images in the movie theatre that is in their brains. And sometimes that is the way it should stay.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayNeedsShouldBelieveStillsBookSometimesStoriesCoursesGamesBrainNovelSawsTelevisionSeriesVery GoodTheatreVideoMediumsComplexityGreat WorkGood BookRichnessGood MovieI Still BelieveMovie Theatre Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music, in terms of its rhythms and dynamics, the way you compress and expand the attention of a reader over a sentence, the way the tempo pushes you towards an image or sensation. We want an intense experience, so that we can forget ourselves when we enter the world of the book. When you are reading, the physical object of the book should disappear from your hands.” ThinkingWorldWayWantShouldWritingMindHeartBookSometimesHandsReadingLanguageTermForgetAttentionObjectsReaderSentencesDisappearIntenseRhythmProseSensationsHeart And MindManipulateTempoDynamicsSeducing Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“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.” WayHas BeensModernAmbitionTalesBridgesSensibilityGothicMy AmbitionVictorianGreat Author Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult fiction, and because of this it became a very successful book, and right now it's some sort of a standard title, it's read widely in many high schools in Spain, so I think, in a way, I was a victim of my own success in the field of young adult fiction, because it was never my own natural register. I never intended to write that kind of fiction, but I became very successful at it.” ThinkingWayWritingFirstsKindImportantBookStoriesSchoolYoungNaturalMy OwnFictionNovelSuccessfulMysteryFieldsAdventureRight NowStandardsHigh SchoolAdultsVictimYoung AdultTitlesAwardsSpainRegister Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“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.” WayDifferentSoundKingsStorytellingCodeDifferent WaysBorgesBalzacGaiman Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.” ThinkingWorldWayFirstsHeartBookMatterFatherLeftMemoriesForgetBehindsOur LivesHeardReturnReaderMarkDeeperCustomersSooner Or LaterEchoesLeft BehindPalacesOur MemoriesAccompanyBookshopsShadow Of The WindAccompany Us Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.” WayWantPoorTeachRichEfficientRendering Book:The Shadow Of The Wind Source: The Shadow Of The Wind
“. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayFeelsSometimesWishStrangerShadow Of The Wind Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.” ThinkingKnowsWayPersonsCharacterBehindsFictionTruth IsEmptyTrailsInk Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“We all give up great expectations along the way.” WayGivingGiving UpExpectationsGreat Expectations Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.” WayFirstsHeartBookReadingReaderMarkDeeper Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“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.” WayEasierRealisingAnother WayOpposing Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.” WayTeacherStudents Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.” MenWayBoysDyingDuesCardsFugitive Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“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?” WorldWayFoolPompousPedantic Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
“Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.” WayLostPathTriumphResolveLabyrinth Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon
