A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more vulnerable to vanity. I was 36 when I wrote The Shadow of the Wind and the success of it was very gradual. If you have this kind of success straight off, I think there is a danger you can become an idiot, because you don't have a perspective. It hasn't changed me a lot. I fly first class now. But those things don't change you. If I am pretentious, I was before, I haven't changed. The only thing is, I am less anxious now.
None of us are what we once were. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
None of us are what we once were.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge… - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge…
Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.
Waiting is the rust of the soul. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Waiting is the rust of the soul.
We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the m… - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the m…
Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
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