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Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Losing People Me Writing Way Write

I've never been the guy to sit back and wait until someone approved something I was passionate about.

Jermaine Fowler

Wait Someone Back Never Passionate

I am still bowled over by this great young adult novel by David Levithan called 'Every Day,' which is about a character with no gender or body who wakes up every day in the body of a different person. It's a really impressive execution of a really great premise.

John Green

Character Great Day I Am Body Young

I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy - it's serious business.

Maya Angelou

Good Friend Mother Business Trying

Empathy is key in the design process, especially when you start expanding outside of your comfort zone to new languages, cultures, and age groups. If you try to assume what those people want, you're likely to get it wrong.

Mike Krieger

Age Empathy People Start Key Design

I'd challenge myself to see how long I could go without a fall - on beam, I once went three weeks.

Dominique Moceanu

Myself Challenge Long Fall Go Three

Since my mother is an extremely devoted Christian Orthodox woman, she prayed a great deal and taught me how to pray.

Dominique Moceanu

Mother Great Woman Me Christian She

I want to own a team one day. You know, that's my next goal.

Derek Jeter

Day Team You Goal Know Want

Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.

Clarence Thomas

Service World Road Speed Economy

It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write.

Brittany Murphy

Mind Way Write Frank Blows Miller

I think Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen have a lot of chemistry between them.

April Bowlby

Think Chemistry Between I Think Them

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

Antonia Fraser

Book Photography Look Jacket Clue

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

August Bebel

Enemy Liberty Civilization