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 ZafonJulian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonEvery book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonIt is difficult to hate an idea. That requires a certain intellectual discipline and a slightly obsessive, sick mind. There arenโt too many of those. Itโs much easier to hate someone with a recognizable face whom we can blame for everything that makes us feel uncomfortable. It doesnโt have to be an individual character. It could be a nation, a race, a group. . .anything.
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