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.

The air seemed poisoned with fear and hatred. People eyed on another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.

When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.