Alejandro Zambra Quotes
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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't want to belong. You can read every story with this as its main focus.
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We rely too much on the people we share our lives with. We hold them responsible for things they are not even aware of. We start blaming them.
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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 each other.
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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 a novel.
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For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.
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I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think.
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Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.
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I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.