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Alejandro Zambra

Alejandro Andrés Zambra Infantas (Santiago, Chile, 1975) is a Chilean poet, short story writer and novelist.

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I remember thinking, without pride of self-pity, that I was not rich or poor, that I wasn't good or bad. But that was difficult: to be neither good nor bad. It seemed to me, in the end, the same as being bad.

Pride, Rich, Rich Or Poor, Thinking

The stories on standardized tests don't have one author, therefore they can never authentically be in the first person. Imagine that! Everywhere, there are these tests that have been written by multiple people.

Imagine, Multiple, People, Stories, Tests, Written

I am still trying to find out things. And I inevitably tell myself the story in different ways every time I think about it.

Different, Inevitably, Things, Thinking, Trying

For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.

Findings, Know, Way, Writing

Everything has been said and everything has been done, but you still feel like you are looking for something.

Done, Like You, Looking, Said

If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you read, you also learn to do this. When you write, you deal with things.

Deal, Learn, Lonely, Suffering, Writing

Every story, every poem, every written piece is about belonging. There is a me, there is a we, there is an us, and we want to belong to it or we don't want to belong. You can read every story with this as its main focus.

Focus, Piece, Pieces, Read, Stories, Story

I was a nerdy kid and I was writing and showing other fellows who are still my friends what I was writing. We were sharing that and kept sharing it. The experiences they had were so different than mine.

Different, Experiences, Friends, Kept, Kids, Writing

You're looking for something, I don't know what I'm looking for, but I'm looking. Writing is a lot about that. When you write a poem. When you write a novel.

Knows, Novel, Poem, Writing

Publishing my book is like giving it away. At first you start talking about it, but you are basically letting go. I won't say it's like giving birth because I haven't given birth. It's more like when your children leave home.

Birth, Book, Children, Given, Letting Go, Like

Literature is about getting in touch. It sounds so hippie, but it really is about sharing stuff. We are a community that doesn't seem to be important for the rest of society, but we are people who want to get in touch - really in touch. We want to be thinking together.

Hippie, People, Sounds, Stuff, Thinking

To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it.

Cover, Faces, Show, Shows, Write, Writing

I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think.

Doubt, Think, Thinking, Way, Writing

I was going to be a memory when I grew up.

Grew, Grew Up, Memories, Memory

I think about Chilean literature as a family, because I grew up reading the literature of my country. I feel like I have fathers and stepfathers and a lot of brothers and sisters and distant cousins and all that.

Brother, Country, Cousin, Fathers, Stepfathers