Quotes by Writing I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture. Alejandro Jodorowsky writingopportunitybook I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money. Alejandro Jodorowsky writingbookart To read is to cover one's face. And to write is to show it. Alejandro Zambra showsfaceswriting 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. Alejandro Zambra lonelysufferingwriting The ways in which a standardized language test induces storytelling, for example, is the opposite of creative writing; you have to learn a logical way to start a story, whereas in creative writing you may begin at the end or begin at the middle of the story. Alejandro Zambra creativeoppositeswriting For me, writing is a way of finding out about things I didn't know before I began writing. Alejandro Zambra findingswritingway I don't have any doubts that I need writing. I need it personally because this is the way I think. Alejandro Zambra doubtwritingthinking I've been writing most of my life; it's just something I do. Alejandro Zambra 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. Alejandro Zambra novelknowswriting 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. Alejandro Zambra differentwritingkids For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different. Aleksa Palladino differentactingwriting I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore. Aleksandar Hemon inspirationwritingbelieve I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction. Aleksandar Hemon brainwritingfiction I want to make money, and I would like to have a lot of money, but I still believe that the only reason to write is that somehow it will make something or somebody better. Aleksandar Hemon wantwritingbelieve I end up writing something every day, since I develop six or seven things at the same time - soccer columns, this and that. Aleksandar Hemon sixwritingsoccer I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how to. I don't want to limit myself. Aleksandar Hemon storieswritingmean I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat. Aleksandar Hemon retreatwritinglong I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important. Aleksandar Hemon importantwritingschool Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or moral drive, even if you are unaware of it. Aleksandar Hemon agencywritingworld I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me. Aleksandar Hemon writingsongbook«2627282930313233343536»
