Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes About Books

• Una vez, en la librería de mi padre, oí decir a un cliente habitual que pocas cosas dejan una huella más profunda en un lector que el primer libro que se abre paso en su corazón. Esas primeras imágenes, el eco de unas palabras que creemos haber dejado atrás, nos acompañan a lo largo de nuestra vida y esculpen un palacio en nuestra memoria al que, tarde o temprano -por muchos libros que leamos, por muchos mundos que descubramos o por mucho que aprendamos u olvidemos-, volveremos.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Recuerdos, Padre, Libro

• Todo libro tiene alma, el alma de quien lo escribió y el alma de quienes lo leen y sueñan con él.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Sueño, Libro, Alma

• I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Book, Dust, Hands

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.14, Penguin

• Cada libro, cada volumen que ves aquí, tiene un alma. El alma de quien lo escribió y de quienes lo leyeron y vivieron y soñaron con él. Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien recorre sus páginas con la mirada, su espíritu crece y se fortalece.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Inspirational, Running, Book

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.16, Penguin

• Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Book, Tradition, Passports

• I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. "How does one choose a single book among so many?" Isaac shrugged his shoulders. 'Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person...destiny, in other words.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Believe, Book, Destiny

• Los libros son espejos: sólo ves en ellos lo que ya tienes dentro.

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  Truth, Book, Mirrors

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.200, Penguin

• Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Arte, Libro, Lectura

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.457, Penguin

• In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Book, Owners, Shadow Of The Wind

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.16, Penguin

• Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Correr, Libro, Lectura

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.16, Penguin

• Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Libro, Lectura, Corazón

• I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Memories, Ocean, Book

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.79, Penguin

• I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Father, Book, Firsts

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.14, Penguin

• Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Believe, Book, People

• In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Art, Book, Fate

  "Books hold no passport – Carlos Ruiz Zafón discusses The Shadow of the Wind". Interview with Steve Porter, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

• I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Book, Silence, Would Be

• Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of the pages of anovel so that he could burn it, about a betrayal and a lost friendship. It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind." You talk like the jacket blurb of a Victorian novel, Daniel." That's probably because I work in a bookshop and I've seen too many. But this is a true story.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Dream, Betrayal, Book

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.171, Penguin

• After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Football, Wall, Book

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.16, Penguin

• That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.

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  Book, Reading, Sight

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.36, Penguin

• He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people... I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them - a comfortable prison of his own design." "You say this as if you envied him." "There are worse prisons than words.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Memories, Book, Past

• I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Book, Eye, Promise

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.459, Penguin

• A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Book, Mirrors, Shadow Of The Wind

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.457, Penguin

• In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Dream, Book, Two

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.37, Penguin

• As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Book, Glasses, Mirrors

• La gente normal trae niños al mundo; los novelistas traemos libros. Estamos condenados a poner toda nuestra vida en ellos, aunque casi nunca nos lo agradezcan. Estamos condenados a morir en sus páginas y a veces incluso a dejar que sean nuestros libros los que, al final, nos quiten la vida.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  Niños, Libro, Personas

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