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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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I've always ignored the labels people put on things.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: Along Codes Different Different Ways Everything Images Interested Just King Mixed Neil See Sounds Stephen King Storytelling Using Ways Why Words Work

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I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: Always Been Felt Had Like Losing Me Other People Realised Really Things Wanted Way Write Writing

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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: Beauty Books Cemetery Collecting Forgotten Human Ideas Just Knowledge Language Make Memory Metaphor Things Us

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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: Any Attention Conventions Critical Explore Fads Labels Like Paying Prejudice Reader Silly Sort Voracious Without Writing

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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.

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I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: Always Angeles Back Become Came Childhood Fantastic Had Image Jazz Liked Los Los Angeles Mind Place Places Somebody Stuff Things Those Welles Where

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My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word, by language, by ideas. So I would seek them out.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: Age Books Childhood Early Early Age Fascinated Ideas Language Out Printed Seek Storytelling Surrounded Them Very Very Early Age Word Would Writing

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Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.

~Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Topics: Good Gothic Jackson Literature Must Shirley Writings

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Biography

Nationality: Spanish

Type: Novelist

Born: September 25th, 1964

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