For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing.
Alejandro ZambraI 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.
Alejandro ZambraYou are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are.
Alejandro ZambraYou 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.
Alejandro Zambra