I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along …

Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.
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