"somethings can only be seen in the shadows"

-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“It's like being on Death Row in an American jail. You are waiting for the door handle to turn, not knowing whether it's a reprieve or just your final breakfast before being executed.”
“How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.”
“He, who loves praise, loves temptation.”
“By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man.”
“Being fat is the absolute nadir of the misfit. You're a misfit because nothing fits. You don't fit in. You're not fit. You're fat. Fat doesn't have the poetic cachet of alcohol, the whiff of danger in the drug of choice. You're just fat. Being fat is so un-American, so unattractive, unerotic, unfashionable, undisciplined, unthinkable, uncool. It makes you invisible. It makes you conspicuous.”
“Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.”
“Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.”

Source : Noah Webster (1832). “A Dictionary of the English Language: Intended to Exhibi ... : in Two Volumes”, p.11
“Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.”

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