I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
I was deeply infected with storytelling from the get go, and I truly love it. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
I love books with titles like, 'How Do You Spank a Porcupine?,' 'Arnie, the Darling Starling,' or 'The Bat in My Pocket.' — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
Writing went from being a calling to being a job. Business ruined things. It became like making sausages in a sausage factory. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
I read most often in bed as part of my attempted sleep ritual. But I spend a lot of time reading on… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“Even if, at the moment, you can't sit down and do the gruntwork of stringing verbs and nouns together, you are writing.… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“Aztlán (“The Place of the Reeds”) was the traditional home of the Aztecs, a possibly mythical motherland from which the tribe ventured forth on… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share
With a name like Luis Alberto Urrea, it's political no matter what I do. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share
During grade school, we moved to a white, working-class suburb in San Diego, and there were no Mexicans. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share
I've been told not to tour down in Mexico. I am too well-known now. The kidnappers may think that my publisher will pay a… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share
“Braulio rises and extends his hands, making peace. " No hay pedo ," he says, the absurd lower-class slang for "There's no trouble here,"… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share
“This is how Heaven works. They're practical. We are always looking for rays of light. For lightning bolts or burning bushes. But God is… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share
We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share
I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share
“He couldn't believe she was real. She was like some dream, some story old men told youngsters. She made a fool out of him… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share
The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story. — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share
The concept of a literature of witness - of bearing witness - has embedded in it the need for action. One must not simply… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share
I have often said I come from a family of unreliable narrators. I tend to believe their struggles with racism, identity, nationality do dovetail… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share
In the end, I'm really interested in people and what we do with our short time here on earth. I'm interested in the human… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share
