Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes About Reading

Quotes about: Reading

• Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Art, Book, Reading

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.457, Penguin

• Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Running, Book, Reading

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.16, Penguin

• Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Reading, Heart

• That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Reading, Sight

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.36, Penguin

• 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 mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Reading, Imagination, Soul

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.36, Penguin

• You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music, in terms of its rhythms and dynamics, the way you compress and expand the attention of a reader over a sentence, the way the tempo pushes you towards an image or sensation. We want an intense experience, so that we can forget ourselves when we enter the world of the book. When you are reading, the physical object of the book should disappear from your hands.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Reading, Writing

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