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.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always loved massive worlds, whether in fantasy or science fiction. I like the idea of making my own rules as well as utilizing everything that I love or inspires me. It's very freeing to know you can write a story that can be as big as your own imagination.
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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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Notes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right.
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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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I had to learn to do everything because I couldn't find another kindred soul. Now you see eighty people listed doing the same things I was doing by myself.
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One of the wonderful things about wrestling, to me, is that you can protect people who have had head injuries.
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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
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I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.
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At the highest level of awareness, the greatest gift given and received when you give someone flowers, is the joy of living a life based on love.
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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.
