Matt de la Pena Quotes

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• My chest got this weird feeling, like when you stare into the eyes of a little baby and the baby looks back up at you…
• The feeling it gave me was an odd combination of weightless self-pity and excitement. I understood my life was meaningless, and this knowledge freed me…
• I was really drawn to spoken-word style poetry. I loved the rhythms, and for some reason, I was just drawn to this poetry as a…
• I guess I don't really know what I want to do, either. Sometimes I feel like a shook-up bottle of soda. Like, I have all…
• When I'm following what a character does in a book I don't have to think about my own life. Where I am. Why I'm here.…
• But when you read books you almost feel like you're out there in the world. Like you're going on this adventure right with the main…
• People always think there's this huge hundred-foot-high barrier that separates doing good from doing bad. But there's not. There's nothing. There's not even a little…
• But mostly I remember every morning before school. How she'd say "Hey, honey!" just I was walking out the apartment door. And me stopping and…
• Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story and narrative, and…
• When I was young, I grew up in a family of working-class people. Not just my parents, but my extended family, as well.
• In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace and dignity in…
• I used to be so angry about the kids that had stuff. Like the kids that had cars, the kids that had money to go…
• Even though I was a reluctant reader in junior high and high school, I found myself writing poems in the back of class.

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