Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain.

Really, the greatest compliments about a book [One Thousand Gifts] are never about the book, or the author of the book, but about the reader and God and how the pages helped them connect at a deeper level.

Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

A good book ... leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul.

A book exists at the intersection of the author's subconscious and the reader's response.

It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.

A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.

This sounds corny, but I once told a kid when I was in a the library conference, the best - not the best, what I really hope for is that someday 20, 30 years from now, some kid, 12-year-old, 15-year-old, in Des Moines will be going through the stacks, if they have stacks anymore - they probably won't - and find a book of mine and get something from it.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

Most of the pleasure of making a book would go if it held nothing to be shared by other people. I would write for a few dozen people, and sometimes it seems that I do so, but I would not write for no-one.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.

A book is a story, even if it's non-fiction, and once I've read it, I have the story with me inside my head always.

In Africa, when you pick up a book worth reading, out of the deadly consignments which good ships are always being made to carry out all the way from Europe, you read it as an author would like his book to be read, praying to God that he may have it in him to go on as beautifully as he has begun. Your mind runs, transported, upon a fresh deep green track.

I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

Literature should not be exclusive, it should be inclusive. My general view is that you can't, based on your own experience, project what a book will do for someone else. That's why I don't review books.

When I read the books, I imagined that the family of Ron Weasley was my family.

Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.

She can take a year to read something, whereas I like a book that becomes more important in my life that life itself. When I was in the middle of 'Red Storm Rising' by Tom Clancy - which was not selected for the Man Booker shortlist - you could have taken my liver out and fed it to the dog. And I wouldn't have noticed.

I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.

Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.