The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It’s only natural, and you will have to find the...

I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.

In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.

Milyen érdekes, hogy az ember oly könnyen kiönti a szívét egy darab papírnak, miközben szemtől szemben megszólalni sem mer.

There is nothing in the path of life that we don’t already know before we start. Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn’t dignified enough to qualify.

Human beings believe just as they breathe – in order to survive.

If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses...

Some like to believe it’s the book that chooses the person.

Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can’t understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return.

You don’t win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many elements regarding story structure and other narrative devices that can be used to enhance the infinitely more complex demands...

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...

We all give up great expectations along the way.

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you...

Durante anos fugi sem saber de quê. Julguei que, se corresse atrás do horizonte, as sombras do passado se afastariam do meu caminho. Julguei que, se criasse suficiente dist ncia, as vozes da minha mente...

Baje a la orilla y me senté en la arena, donde años atrás había esparcido las cenizas de Marina. La misma luz de aquel día encendió el cielo y sentí su presencia, intensa. Comprendí que...

—La televisión, amigo Daniel, es el Anticristo y le digo yo que bastarán tres o cuatro generaciones para que la gente ya no sepa ni tirarse pedos por su cuenta y el ser humano vuelva...

A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere)

He let the hours go by lost in the magic of words, shedding his skin and his name, feeling like another person. He allowed himself to be carried away by the dreams of shadowy characters,...

Books hold no passports. There’s only one true literary tradition: the human.

Right then, in a nutshell: this one hasn’t a single bone of obedient-little-wife material in her heavenly body.”Hasn’t she? Then what kind of bone does your expertise detect?’Fermin came closer, adopting a confidential tone. ‘The...

In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.

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

Its impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with some one about beliefs and concepts if he has not acquired them through reason. It doesn’t matter whether we are looking at God, race, or national pride.

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...

Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend’s latent conversational and social skills.Like the good ape he is, man...

Never trust he who trusts everyone.

And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of a book in which he had written the initial chapters of a story...

Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself.

With ‘The Angel’s Game’, there was a lot of pressure from the expectations – expectations from the book industry and from readers; it’s natural.

All business opportunities stem from someone else’s inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem.

I’m not talking to anyone, I’m delivering a monologue. It’s the inebriated man’s prerogative.

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.

Malo stvari čitatelja može obilježiti onako kako to čini prva knjiga koja pronađe put do njegova srca. Te prve slike, odjek riječi za koje mislimo da su ostale za nama, prate nas cijeloga života i...

Max had once read in one of his father’s books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no...

Television, my dear Daniel, is the Antichrist, and I can assure you that after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own. Humans will return to...

We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we’re awake.

Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

the day women are allowed to learn to read and write the world will become ungovernable.

The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

I could tell you it’s the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.

I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor.

I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in two days, raindrops the size of mangoes. And in Barcelona, the Mediterranean storms...

The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always...

Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend?-I can barely remember Lord’s Prayer.-A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends,myths, or any type...