Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes - Page 12

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• I would go to newsstands and buy paperbacks they were selling for tourists, usually bestsellers and mass market paperbacks. In the beginning, it was like going to the Rosetta Stone--I didn?t understand anything, I'd get a headache--but I began to figure it out, and I'd read a lot of Stephen King paperbacks. I've always said he was my English professor.

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  Kings, Tourists, Stones

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• The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult fiction, and because of this it became a very successful book, and right now it's some sort of a standard title, it's read widely in many high schools in Spain, so I think, in a way, I was a victim of my own success in the field of young adult fiction, because it was never my own natural register. I never intended to write that kind of fiction, but I became very successful at it.

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  Book, Writing, School

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• One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.

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  Once In A Lifetime, Lifetime, One Love

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• When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story.

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  Two, Monsters, Saint

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• I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic. There's a point after the industrial period where it seems like humanity's finally going to make it right. There were advances in medicine and technology and education. People are going to be able to live longer lives; literacy is starting to spread. It seemed like finally, after centuries of toiling and misery, that humanity was going to get to a better stage. And then what happens is precisely the contrary. Humanity betrays itself.

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  War, Epic, Technology

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• Why is it that all wars are won by bankers?

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  War, Bankers

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). “The Prisoner of Heaven”, p.86, Hachette UK

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