Books Quote by Alejandro Zambra

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

“...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

“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

“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

Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.

— Alejandro Zambra

“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

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

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

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

“What greater happiness than to know that move exists, that I can watch it many times, that I can watch it always.”

— Alejandro Zambra

I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.

— Alejandro Zambra

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