The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go..

Every labyrinth has its minotaur.

Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a sho….

... , listening to the storm outside as it left the city, knowing that I was going to lose her but also knowing that, for a few minutes, we had belon….

Sometimes feeling and thinking are one and the same..

The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel..

Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by th….

Write," he said. "I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian. "No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelo….

Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly eve….

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever..

There are worse prisons than words..

If you think you’re the only person for whom life is painful, you’re wrong. And if you don’t mind letting yourself die like a dog, at least have the ….

A piece of literature can be many things but first of all it must capture its audience. You need to seduce people, entice them into a world of beauty….

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything..

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away..

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every ….

That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too..

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 a….

Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whate….

Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true..

Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of ….