Alejandro Zambra Professions : Poet Born : 1975 Browse All Authors Top 23 quotes by Alejandro Zambra 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. Alejandro Zambra stories people firsts You are told that you have to eliminate un-useful sentences, but as a writer you know how important details are. Alejandro Zambra sentences details important 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. Alejandro Zambra hippie people thinking Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors