Carlos Ruiz Zafón:
(Barcelona, 25 September 1964 – Los Angeles, 19 June 2020). Spanish novelist. He became known worldwide with the publication in 2001 of his novel La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) and wrote several novels, children’s books and some film scripts. He was winner of numerous literary awards and his work was on the list of 100 best Spanish-language books of the past 25 years made in 2007 by 81 Latin American and Spanish authors and critics.
When lying, what must be taken into account is not the plausibility of the lie, but the greed, vanity and stupidity of the recipient. One never lies to people; they lie to themselves. A good liar gives fools what they want to hear. Thats the secret.
Blessed is he against whom the idiots rage, for his soul shall never belong to them.
The difficulty is not to make money, but to make it with something worth devoting your life to.
“Poetry is written with tears, a novel with blood, and history with invisible ink,” said the cardinal, smearing the knife’s edge with poison by the light of the candlestick.
Keep your dreams, you never know when they will be needed.
In the most advanced stage of feeble-mindedness, the lack of ideas is compensated with an abundance of ideologies.
With spirits, it is like rat poison or benevolence: the more often you use it, the lesser the effect.
Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.
