I was a nerdy kid and I was writing and showing other fellows who are still my friends what I was writing.… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are. — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think. — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
Every story, every poem, every written piece is about belonging. There is a me, there is a we, there is an us,… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing. — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, there are… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“...she feels a desire to go to the bridge, alone, to throw something over the rail, into the current—a photograph, a hat, anything; she… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“She knows that very soon Ernesto won't come back. She imagines herself disconcerted, then furious, and finally invaded by a decisive calm. It's all… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“The novel belongs to our parents, I thought then, I think now. That's what we grew up believing, that the novel belonged to our… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something. — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“Julián didn’t want to regain his love, since he had stopped loving her a long time ago. He had stopped loving her one second… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I won't say… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of.… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult:… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
“What greater happiness than to know that move exists, that I can watch it many times, that I can watch it always.” — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
