A biography for Carlos Ruiz Zafonhasn’t been written yet.
“In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.”
“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.”
“I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period that's epic and tragic.”
“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.”