If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things.
Literature is about getting in touch. It sounds so hippie, but it really is about sharing stuff. We are a community that doesn't seem to be important… - Alejandro Zambra
Literature is about getting in touch. It sounds so hippie, but it really is about sharing stuff. We are a community that doesn't seem to be important…
- Alejandro Zambra
Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something. - Alejandro Zambra
Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.
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 write a poem. When you write … - Alejandro Zambra
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 write a poem. When you write …
I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always e… - Alejandro Zambra
I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always e…
For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing. - Alejandro Zambra
For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.
Every story, every poem, every written piece is about belonging. There is a me, there is a we, there is an us, and we want to belong to it or we don'… - Alejandro Zambra
Every story, every poem, every written piece is about belonging. There is a me, there is a we, there is an us, and we want to belong to it or we don'…
I think about Chilean literature as a family, because I grew up reading the literature of my country. I feel like I have fathers and stepfathers and … - Alejandro Zambra
I think about Chilean literature as a family, because I grew up reading the literature of my country. I feel like I have fathers and stepfathers and …
I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it. - Alejandro Zambra
I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.
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 it's like giving birth … - 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 it's like giving birth …
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