“I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.”

Spanish novelist

Carlos Ruiz Zafón was a Spanish novelist. He is known for his 2001 novel La sombra del viento, which brought him wide recognition. The novel sold 15 million copies and won numerous awards. In 2007, it was included in a list of the 100 best books in Spanish of the previous 25 years, compiled by 81 Spanish and Hispanic American writers and critics.