Quotes from Alejandro Zambra

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

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

When you read a novel, you know what to expect because you've been reading novels for a long time.

You can say that literature is about topics like love, death, and all that, but I think there is only one topic that applies to all literature and that is belonging.

I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.

As a child, all you see is that adults are not playing. Adults are not talking too much. Adults don't want to relate to each other.