Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes about Writing

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It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain, you're constantly trying to solve challenges. I think most writers enjoy the feeling of having written something, rather than the process of writing it.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Book, Hard Work, Writing

Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Writing, Novelists, Human Nature

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

I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write. I wrote and rewrote every line as if my life depended on it, and then rewrote it again.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Writing, Expression, Phrases

The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Writing, Tools, Literature

I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Writing, Character, Magic

Write," he said. "I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian. "No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Book, Writing, Letters

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.263, Penguin

I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power would surpass any postal limitations--a letter written with that pen would reach the most remote corners of the world, even that unknowable place to which my father said my mother had gone and from where she would never return.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Mother, Father, Writing

Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.40, Penguin

I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Writing, Angel, Wind

I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of dragons (I have 400 of them). I only use Macintosh computers, which I name in dynastic order. Right now I'm using MacDragon 5. Only the devil is able to decipher my handwriting.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Writing, Night, Dragons

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

Book, Writing, Ideas

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.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Book, Writing, School