Climax Quote by Hector Tobar

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

I write, fighting for every sentence, fighting to hold the reader with every paragraph.

— Hector Tobar

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

“In books there were limitless worlds, there was truth, sometimes brutal and ugly, and sometimes happy and soothing.”

— Héctor Tobar

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

— Hector Tobar

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

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

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

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

“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

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

Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

— Hector Tobar