Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 25, 1964
He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets..
I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of dragons (I have 400 of them). I ….
Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool..
Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it..
I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third ….
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 ….
They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical s….
Coincidences are the scars of fate..
One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it..
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise..
Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learn….
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice..
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you..
You know, not every good book needs to be a movie, or a television series, or a video game. There's great work in those mediums, of course, but somet….
When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked..
When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are not telling the ….
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen..
I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storyte….
The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich..
Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened..
I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around..