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Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: Around Barcelona Cannot City Feel Haunted History Old Perceiving Very Walk Weight Which Without You

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Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: Accomplished Beyond Castles Century Continue Days Evolve Examples Film Flourish Genre Gloomy Gothic However Interesting Literature Many Mention Most Picture Producing Readers Since Sinister Some Truth Truth Is Will 20Th Century

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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: Change Did Happy Made Me Perspective Shadow Success Very Way Wind

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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.

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Topics: Barcelona Books Bridges Cemetery City Could Ever Fantastic Forgotten Greatest Hidden Imagine Inside Labyrinth Library Like Most Old Palace Secret Sections You

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I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc. I'm also a freak for urban history, particularly Barcelona, Paris and New York. I know more weird stuff about 19th-century Manhattan than is probably healthy.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: About Also Am Barcelona Cakes Creature Curious Etc Film Finger Freak Healthy History Know Manhattan Many More New New York Paris Particularly Put Stuff Technology Than Urban Weird York I Am I Can

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In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: Angeles Asleep Bad Empty Everyone Get Go Like Los Los Angeles Memory Mysterious Night Past Patrol Ray Ray Bradbury Sense Sometimes Story Streets You

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I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms come up from the sea, thunder and lightning; it's like the end of the world.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: Barcelona Come Days End End Of The World Entire Get Lightning Like Lot Mediterranean Rains Sea Size Spend Storms Thunder Time Two Up World Year You

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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: Barcelona Cities Creatures Ever Extremely Haunting History Living Living Creatures Madrid Man Me Organisms Present See Vain Woman I See

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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: Books Caffeine Cannot Dignified Enough Live Music Qualify Things Two Without

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My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands of a novel.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: Complex Consider Demands Devices Elements Enhance Fiction Forces Infinitely Influenced Many More Narrative Novel Other Regarding Screenplays Screenwriter Story Structure Used Work Writing You

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Novelist

Born: September 25th, 1964

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