Writer Quotes by Julia Alvarez

Independence didn't have to be exile.

— Julia Alvarez

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

— Julia Alvarez

It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a…

— Julia Alvarez

I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

— Julia Alvarez

Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

— Julia Alvarez

Depression is always in the details.

— Julia Alvarez

I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into…

— Julia Alvarez

Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That…

— Julia Alvarez

Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.

— Julia Alvarez

For me, the writing life doesn't just happen when I sit at the writing desk. It is a life lived with a centering principle,…

— Julia Alvarez

I think it is important to know how to teach new material to help young people grow and learn.

— Julia Alvarez

Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to…

— Julia Alvarez

I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.

— Julia Alvarez

The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.

— Julia Alvarez

Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each of us.

— Julia Alvarez