Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

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

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: spanish
  • Birth: September 25, 1964

Topics

PeopleAlwaysThingsLabelsIgnored

It's hard enough to be a lady writer. Doubly hard to be a funny lady writer.

Jill Soloway

FunnyEnoughLadyHardWriter

A lot of the work at Oculus has gone into working out better position tracking.

John Carmack

WorkBetterOutPositionGoneLot

A lot of my songs are written prophetically: I write something, and then I make it happen.

Jens Lekman

Make It HappenWriteHappenSomething

Romanians have a particular love for poetry and have a beautiful, vivid language. The poets they love are not versifiers like Vadim Tudor, but genuinely complex mystical souls like Mircea Cartarescu.

Andrei Codrescu

LoveBeautifulPoetryLanguageLike

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime.

Maximilien Robespierre

InnocenceCrimeThroneStruggles

I'd love to see all the guys play their best because I think it's better for tennis.

John McEnroe

LoveBestThinkBetterPlayTennis

My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.

Ann Romney

FaithExperienceYouNeedWellFive

What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance.

Michael Connelly

GoodCharacterChanceThinkKnow

After Mad Season, I started writing my own music for Pearl Jam and brought it in. 'Given To Fly' came out of that, and so did 'Faithful' - those were on 'Yield,' which came after Mad Season.

Mike McCready

MusicWritingFlyMadMy OwnOut

You can tell within a second of entering a bar if it's a place you should spend your time.

Jon Taffer

TimeYouPlaceBarWithinTell

My particular demigod is the Sonics point guard Gary Payton, who is one of the most notorious trash-talkers in the National Basketball Association. He's not really bad. He's only pretend bad - I know that - but he allows me to fantasize about being bad.

David Shields

MeBasketballBadKnowPretendOnly

If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there.

Bob Parsons

ProblemsMomentsYouLookKnowWant

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