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Samanta Schweblin Quotes

born 1978 Argentina

Samanta Schweblin (born 1978) is an Argentinian author who writers in Spanish.

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Home belongs to the family. It’s not a place you chose, it’s more of an imposed space, arbitrary—a space whose rules you don’t entirely understand.

I learned to write reading North American literature, I love your literature, but I have this feeling that if a country only reads its own literature, it will run out of oxygen.

In the moment you decide to publish, you hand them off. But it’s interesting how certain stories have remained present—how some were published over and over in different languages, which meant they always seemed close by, and I would change little things here or there.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samanta Schweblin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.