Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

Avid readers are enchanted by meaning, which is available chiefly in books.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.

The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.

When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel of the books in my hands and the magical new worlds I discovered always drew me back to that fantastic place. Each time I visited, I could expect to find a new adventure and from time to time use my imagination to revisit my favorite place and enjoy Green Eggs and Ham in a house, with a mouse, on a train, on a plane, in a box, with a fox.

Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning’s dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!

The big advantage of a book is that it's very easy to rewind. Close it and you're right back at the beginning.

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

I’d much rather pretend I’m somewhere else, and any time I open the pages of a book, that happens.

I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles.

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

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

To encounter a fine book and have time to read it is a wonderful thing.

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page.

With a book you can read the same paragraph four times. You can go back to page 21 when you're on page 300. You can't do that with film. It just charges ahead.

I think I wrote once that baseball in many ways is very much like reading. I said there are more bad books than bad ballgames, or maybe it was the other way around. I can't remember.

Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.

In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.