I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all that. I always managed to survive by being upbeat. — 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 Americans when we're born in this country. There's lots of people who believe that this has led to… — Hector Tobar 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 some way… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph. — Hector Tobar 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 campaign itself… — 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, and then… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
“In books there were limitless worlds, there was truth, sometimes brutal and ugly, and sometimes happy and soothing.” — Héctor Tobar Copy Share Image
We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art. — Hector Tobar 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 appreciation of… — 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 Americans when… — 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 undocumented people.… — Hector Tobar 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 want to… — Hector Tobar 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 mania, listening… — Hector Tobar 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 to create… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
