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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There's a writing adage that says, 'Write yourself into a corner.' My brother and I have always loved that adage.
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Know the business, learn the business, own something.
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I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.
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Part of the philosophy of 'The Dice Man' is that you have got to be laughing at yourself at every moment and be free of yourself at every moment.
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It's good for me to see so many other people who are not me. That there are so many others. I feel affection for them. Most of them are doing the best they can. I am also doing the best I can.
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For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.
