Carlos Ruiz Zafón: Quotes about life

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“Making money isn't hard in itself… What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“Everything in life in nonsense. It's just a question of persepctive”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Midnight Palace

Source: The Midnight Palace

“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 Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game