To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it. — Alejandro Zambra Bonsai 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 Creative Copy Share Image
You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic… — Alejandro Zambra Belonging Copy Share Image
“But no. Memory is no refuge. There remains only an inconsistent babble of street names that no longer exist.” — Alejandro Zambra Memory Copy Share Image
“Back then death was invisible for children like me, who went outside, running fearlessly along those fantastical streets, safe from history. The… — Alejandro Zambra Children Copy Share Image
“Julian curses his fixation: Ultimately, he should have his time writing down the conversations that floated up from the bar beneath the… — Alejandro Zambra Books Copy Share Image
“Because we can't, we don't know how to talk about a movie or a book anymore; the moment has come when movies… — Alejandro Zambra Books Copy Share Image
“She asked me later, half-joking, if the characters stay together for the rest of their lives. I couldn't avoid a flicker of… — Alejandro Zambra Stay together Copy Share Image
“I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to… — Alejandro Zambra Ends Copy Share Image
“The truth is she can’t stand fiction; she gets impatient with novelists’ absurd farces; let’s pretend there was once a world that… — Alejandro Zambra Truth Copy Share Image
“It would be better to close the book, close the books, and to face, all at once, not life, which is very… — Alejandro Zambra Books Copy Share Image
“I always thought I didn't have real childhood memories. That my history fit into a few lines. One one page, maybe. In… — Alejandro Zambra Childhood Copy Share Image
For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing. — Alejandro Zambra Findings Copy Share Image
When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time. — Alejandro Zambra Books 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 Deals Copy Share Image
