Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.

You need to have a reader's sympathy in order to accomplish anything. It's like at a reading, I find it's better to read something funny than to read something tragic. It just goes over better because you have a finite amount of time with somebody. Of course, in a book, you have a lot of time. But you still do want to make a certain impression right when you begin.

Books wind into the heart.

Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages, in their sight and smell, in their touch and feel to the questing hand, and in the intellectual music which they sing to the thoughtful brain and loving heart, books are to me the best of all symbols, the realest of all reality.

It's not how many books you get through, it's how many books get through you.

The books we enjoy as children stay with us forever -- they have a special impact. Paragraph after paragraph and page after page, the author must deliver his or her best work.

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

My life has been more influenced by books than by any other one thing.

If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaper—memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear is not just a well-told story, but a dramatic recalibrating of what it means to have a mind-and a soul.

I really enjoyed reading the writings of Fredrick Buechner, I havent read anything by him in probably a decade but about 20 years ago I read four or five books of his and it helped me.

Reading a great book causes jolts and frights.

I am sure everyone has had the experience of reading a book and finding it vibrating with aliveness, with colour and immediacy. And then, perhaps some weeks later, reading it again and finding it flat and empty. Well, the book hasn't changed: you have.

Literary influences are harder for me to point to, because mostly it's a mulch of all of my past reading.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.

Some books you read. Some books you enjoy. But some books just swallow you up, heart and soul.

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

Books have always a secret influence on the understanding.

Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.

There are books that I read years ago that enlivened things in me that haven't died yet.