I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America… — Hector Tobar America Copy Share Image
“She would speak her story in Spanish and la señora Maureen would tell hers in English; it was obvious to her that… — Héctor Tobar English Copy Share Image
I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph. — Hector Tobar Books Copy Share Image
“In books there were limitless worlds, there was truth, sometimes brutal and ugly, and sometimes happy and soothing.” — Héctor Tobar Books Copy Share Image
We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art. — Hector Tobar Art Copy Share Image
“That’s the way mining is. You always find a way to cheat fate,” he says. “That’s what’s beautiful about being a miner:… — Héctor Tobar Fate Copy Share Image
Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world. — Hector Tobar Caustic Copy Share Image
There's a lot of really wonderful things about the United States of America, especially its ethnic diversity and its mostly successful struggle… — Hector Tobar America Copy Share Image
I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
I am someone who is fascinated with European German history, the Holocaust, and to see these parallels in our own democratic system,… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
In real life, there are right-wingers, there are anti-immigrant activists who want to overturn this constitutional right that we have to become… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
Undocumented people have been targeted for years now. Even under the Obama administration, there was a really large number of deportations of… — Hector Tobar Administration Copy Share Image
“I am in a two-stoplight town in the Alabama hill country, in the heart of the Bible Belt and Crimson Tide football… — Hector Tobar North america Copy Share Image
I want to bring Americans into some experiences they ordinarily would not consider. Experiences in Latin America, people in Latin America, I… — Hector Tobar America Copy Share Image
In the Latino community, the Trump campaign, even when it seemed it was a long shot he would be elected president, his… — Hector Tobar Campaigns Copy Share Image
What we're trying to do as writers is rescue, preserve this space of thoughtfulness of language, of a deeper and more honest… — Hector Tobar Appreciation Copy Share Image
