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 Being Copy Share Image
The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings. — Luis Alberto Urrea Divide Copy Share Image
“On that long westward morning, all Mexicans still dreamed the same dream. They dreamed of being Mexican. There was no greater mystery.” — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“...There was nothing one could do when love came. It was fast, and it was strong, and if it were not good,… — Luis Alberto Urrea Love Copy Share Image
I was deeply infected with storytelling from the get go, and I truly love it. — Luis Alberto Urrea Get Copy Share Image
When I was doing missionary work when I was younger, which started this obsession of mine with the literature of witness, I… — Luis Alberto Urrea Books Copy Share Image
Poetry is how I feed the soul, and it's how I fire the furnace of writing. — Luis Alberto Urrea Fire 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 Books Copy Share Image
“The world looked to them like a great roll of butcher paper unfurled on a table.” — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“And afterward, I stopped at Red Cloud's grave to pay my respects to the old chief. Some Oglalas had left him tobacco… — Luis Alberto Urrea Afterlife Copy Share Image
Many of us writers tour like a literary Bachman Turner Overdrive. We ain't pretty, but we're on the road. Many of us… — Luis Alberto Urrea Live Copy Share Image
“My friend,' he said, 'no one is more ired of religion than a priest.” — Luis Alberto Urrea Friendship Copy Share Image
It became really important to me if I was going to write 'Hummingbird's Daughter' to try to do honor to women. — Luis Alberto Urrea Daughter Copy Share Image
“Fat green frogs, the eternally grinning type destined to be shellacked into bizarre poses while wearing mariachi hats and holding toy trumpets… — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
“If it was the Border Patrol’s job to apprehend lawbreakers, it was equally their duty to save the lost and the dying.” — Luis Alberto Urrea Death Copy Share Image
I've been treated beautifully wherever I've gone, and I really think we all want to love each other. — Luis Alberto Urrea Beauty Copy Share Image
“The sky peeled back for a moment, and a weak ray of sunset spilled over the scene like the diseased eye of… — Luis Alberto Urrea Sunsets Copy Share Image
When 'The Hummingbird's Daughter' came out, there was a certain backlash - 'Well, this isn't 'The Devil's Highway.'' That's just the way… — Luis Alberto Urrea Daughter Copy Share Image
It's the most absurd story. I grew up in the dirt streets of Tijuana, dying of all kinds of diseases - tuberculosis,… — Luis Alberto Urrea Absurd Copy Share Image
I used to approach writing like a football game. If I went out there and aggressively saw more, I'd know more, and… — Luis Alberto Urrea Ball game Copy Share Image
“Who was to say that God did not use the coyote’s teeth to eat His gifts?” — Luis Alberto Urrea Copy Share Image
Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old. — Luis Alberto Urrea Border-crossing Copy Share Image
