"For me, the writing life doesn't just happen……" — 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, and mine is this: that I will pay close attention to this world I find myself in. 'My heart keeps open house,' was the way the poet Theodore Roethke put it in a poem. And rendering in language what one sees through the opened windows and doors of that house is a way of bearing witness to the mystery of what it is to be alive in this world."
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Julia Alvarez
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11 Quotes by Julia Alvarez
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A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.
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As a young writer, I was on guard against the Latina in me, the Spanish in me because as far…
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It doesn't make any sense. If the SIM are policemen, secret or not, shouldn't we trust them instead of being…
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There is no end to what can be said about the world
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A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.
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It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and…
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Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.
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Independence didn't have to be exile.
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I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the…
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The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.
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