Writer Quotes by Luis Alberto Urrea

11 Writer quotes by Luis Alberto Urrea

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Urrea’s voice carries the weight of borders and stories, and these eleven snippets give a concise taste of how he frames the writer’s role in a shifting world.

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Books are like chocolate. Can't eat just one.

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'The Hummingbird's Daughter' took 20 years to write.

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Writers write without support.

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People think of me as a political writer, but I don't think of myself that way.

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Borders are liminal spaces. Anyone worthy of the title of 'writer' is a border writer. We all are border people.

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I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

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I was deeply infected with storytelling from the get go, and I truly love it.

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Writing went from being a calling to being a job. Business ruined things. It became like making sausages in a sausage factory.

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I read most often in bed as part of my attempted sleep ritual. But I spend a lot of time reading on…

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I love books with titles like, 'How Do You Spank a Porcupine?,' 'Arnie, the Darling Starling,' or 'The Bat in My Pocket.'

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“Even if, at the moment, you can't sit down and do the gruntwork of stringing verbs and nouns together, you are writing.…

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I'm interested in the eternal soul. That's what I write about.

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“Aztlán (“The Place of the Reeds”) was the traditional home of the Aztecs, a possibly mythical motherland from which the tribe ventured forth on…

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With a name like Luis Alberto Urrea, it's political no matter what I do.

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During grade school, we moved to a white, working-class suburb in San Diego, and there were no Mexicans.

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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…

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“Braulio rises and extends his hands, making peace. " No hay pedo ," he says, the absurd lower-class slang for "There's no trouble here,"…

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“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…

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We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny.

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I came to believe the green fuse that drives spring and summer through the world is essentially a literary energy. That the world was…

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Writers write without support.

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“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…

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The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.

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The concept of a literature of witness - of bearing witness - has embedded in it the need for action. One must not simply…

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I have often said I come from a family of unreliable narrators. I tend to believe their struggles with racism, identity, nationality do dovetail…

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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…

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