Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.

The act of writing means you wish to communicate. Whether you're writing a memoir for yourself you put in a drawer, or you write a poem and you send it to a little magazine, or you write for publication, it always means - the form follows function.

I'm not writing to encourage people to read my book or even books in general. That's not my job. My job is to write them. And if people want to read them, that's great.

I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.

Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.

I never exactly made a book. It's rather like taking dictation. I was given things to say.

Pay attention to your passions. They are the key to starting and finishing the book you are meant to write. I don't believe in talent. I believe in passion.

I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

Books are an attempt to control something that's uncontrollable.

I think when I write movies and plays and books and magazine articles, they're all storytelling, and reality is the common denominator that binds them.

I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest.

If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons!

Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

I do write, but for now I am keeping it all in the desk drawer. I have always written. The only book that I have published was "Revolution," during the election campaign, a book that contains both personal and political chapters. I have never been happy with what I have written, including three novels that, from my point of view, are incomplete.

Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

You become a great writer by writing.

Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.