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

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

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

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

- 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…

- 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…

- 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.

- Alejandro Zambra

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

- 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…

- Alejandro Zambra