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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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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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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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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It's natural for any actor that segues into directing to be an actor's director. You know how to relate to the actors.
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Nobody really doubted me playing football, making it to the NFL. I was like, 'I know I can do that.'
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There are two ways of knowing if something ends badly: If you're honest with yourself, you just kind of know it. And then there's other people's reaction to it.
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Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year.
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When you're writing a story or an actor playing a role, you should never think of your characters as heroes or villains. You have to think of them as people first.
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The most important thing about technology is that it can seamlessly work its way into your routine and your life.
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I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.
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New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
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My fear is if there is a trial we're going to see the partisanship getting involved again -- attack, counter-attack, a challenge, a counter-challenge and it's disastrous to this country.
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For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.
