“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.” ThinkingEndsSelfRememberDifficultPoorRichPridePitySelf PityRich Or PoorBeing Bad Author:Alejandro Zambra
“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.” WayWritingMayEndsStoriesLanguageCreativeMiddleExampleTestsOppositesStorytellingLogicalCreative Writing Author:Alejandro Zambra
“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.” PeopleWantLifeLittlesEndsStoriesMightSpeak Author:Alejandro Zambra
