Alejandro Zambra Quotes
I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
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90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.
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I really like all of the characters in 'The Secret History' by Donna Tartt, especially Camilla, the one girl. I find her fascinating.
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There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
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When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
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Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
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Simply, there are many things I would like to do.
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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
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The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.
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I always wanted to find oil. It was always an irresistible calling.
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The fact of the matter is, it's hard to find good movies, period.
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I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
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I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.
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The story of Americans is the story of arrested metamorphoses. Those who achieve success come to a halt and accept themselves as they are. Those who fail become resigned and accept themselves as they are.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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That's the great thing about incubating something on the web: you have the potential to go to other platforms. Every single platform has a different audience that you find.
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Slipstream fiction is usually defined as fiction with a contemporary setting in which story elements are mimetic (that is, seem real) - except for one or two eerie strangenesses. Unlike outright fantasy, these are not explained or integrated into an alternate-reality setting.
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It's nice to be back in this gray, dingy hallway.
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I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory.
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Subplots bring realism to your main plot simply by existing – by interrupting the flow. Why is this? Because life doesn’t move forward all at once. Interruptions happen, change rushes in, we juggle three or ten balls at once. Readers don’t expect continuous narratives.
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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.
