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.
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'…
- 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
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…
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.
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…
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 …
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.
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.
The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn a logical wa… - Alejandro Zambra
The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn a logical wa…
The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, the… - 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, the…
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