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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I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle', and the other isn't.
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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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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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Guys act strange around me. I swear I don't know why!
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I know how to put it into a melody and make it comical but sexual at the same time.
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Tell your idea to whomever will listen, and you'll get valuable market feedback before writing a single line of code.
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We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.
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By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
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I wanted alot of tattoos but I never thought I was gonna be this rediculous.
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And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
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I guess the argument of contextuality is that anything is okay as long as it's done by people who are sufficiently unlike you.
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And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!
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For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.
