Alejandro Zambra Quotes
For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.
Quotes to Explore
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There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.
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Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.
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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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I know the fact that I was born means I have to die, so my only aim is to reach out and help someone along the way.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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I know how ridiculous this sounds because of the job I do but I don't believe in romanticism and make-believe.
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We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
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Historical fiction is actually good preparation for reading SF. Both the historical novelist and the science fiction writer are writing about worlds unlike our own.
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My highest point was the first thing I won, a short story competition in a women's magazine in the Eighties. It was the first time I'd had my writing validated, and the first thing I'd ever shown anyone else.
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I've been writing about my boyhood, when I was a little kid back on my grandfather's farm where we didn't know about black widow spiders or all that stuff. But writing about that is so easy.
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Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
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Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.
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I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it over again.
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I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe.
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Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.
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Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.
