Alejandro Zambra Quotes

I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.

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• When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Life
  • Great
  • My Life

• When I was in high school, I was really into string theory and superstring theory and read 'Scientific American.' It's fascinating.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • School
  • American
  • High

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone

• Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Yourself
  • Search
  • Others

• I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Fall

• We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Book
  • Freedom
  • Kind

• Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Fire
  • Christmas

• I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Night
  • Need
  • Friday

• My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Father
  • Sometimes
  • Jobs

• All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Love
  • Happiness
  • For Her

• I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Marriage
  • Arranged

• Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Future
  • Perspective

• I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. People's habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • People
  • Important
  • Questions

• New York's definitely got my heart.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Heart
  • New
  • Got

• In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Good
  • Me
  • Very

• Head Start is designed to ensure that all children - regardless of their family's income, race, or ethnic background - are able to enter kindergarten ready to learn.

  

  Lucille Roybal-Allard
  • Children
  • Family

• I really believe that the more distractions and fixes I remove from my life, the better I'll feel about myself. The biggest of those is Depeche Mode. It's the one marriage that survived, but I'm not sure it works - for me, anyway. Jumping on a plane to go somewhere else and be told how wonderful I am doesn't feel good any more.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Life
  • Good
  • Believe

• Relax! Life is beautiful!

  

  David L. Wolper
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Relax

• Thanks to the rise of cloud computing, collaboration tools are becoming increasingly affordable, allowing even the smallest firms to implement enterprise-grade solutions that can significantly improve communication lines between employees and customers.

  

  Jean-Philippe Courtois
  • Communication
  • Thanks
  • Collaboration

• The vast majority of writers out there, they finish their books, and no one cares whether their book is late or ever comes out at all. And then it comes out, and two reviews are published, and it sells 12 copies.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • Book

• I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do.

  

  Alejandro Zambra
  • Life
  • Writing