Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

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.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TechnologyHistoryCuriousNew York

There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.

Jerzy Kosinski

PunishmentNationCapitalMustWorse

Young Hollywood can absolutely feel like high school sometimes, which is hard, but it's part of life. If you get enough humans involved, there is bound to be a little drama.

Meaghan Jette Martin

LifeSchoolHigh SchoolEnoughYou

Lastly get emotionally connected to your story so you can deliver it, you know, if you can't deliver the emotions to your script there's no point to your story. Story is the key.

Robert Redford

StoryKeyYouEmotionsKnowPoint

Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something. Not to gain, but to get rid of something.

Andy Serkis

LoveMeInterestingLoseQuestGet

Every now and then, I am reminded it's not always about politics. It's about people.

Tomi Lahren

PoliticsI AmPeopleNowAlwaysAm

The notion that a black suspect can do no wrong and is always the victim is B.S.

Tomi Lahren

BlackWrongAlwaysVictimSuspect

When I was young, anywhere I would go in Germany, I would see my father's posters. Everyone knew about him. And he had many friends who were artists who were also quite famous. So, for me, it seemed very natural to be an artist and be known.

Ruth Bernhard

FatherMeFamousFriendsArtistGo

Given a choice between great food and boring company or boring food and great company, I'll take the great company any day.

Ruth Reichl

GreatFoodDayChoiceBoringTake

I approach my work still like an athlete. I have to go to the gym and run or ride the bike and work up a sweat. I need to still get my body right, and, in turn, that will make my mind right. That's how I approach acting.

Russell Hornsby

WorkRideBikeMindBodyActing

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

Mary Stewart

BestThinkFeelYouKnowWay

My interest in theatre started in high school, mostly because my dean forced me to do it. I was creating trouble in the hallways, so he demanded that I do something with my spare time.

Michael Weston

TimeSchoolMeTheatreHigh School

The real impulse of most books is to tell a story to keep the reader lashed to the page. I don't get why that's a proper use of an adult's time.

David Shields

TimeStoryPageWhyRealTell

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