Speak Quote by Valeria Luiselli

“Genetics is a science full of gods, Mr. Sanchez.”

— Valeria Luiselli

“Some compare La Bestia to a demon, others to a kind of vacuum that sucks distracted riders down into its metal entrails. And when…

— Valeria Luiselli

“He fell into a solemn silence, which he only eventually broke to say, “I think I’ve become a terrible person. In fact, I’ve become…

— Valeria Luiselli

I learned to keep at a certain distance from things - and to make myself a little bit invisible while I observed and understood…

— Valeria Luiselli

“Writer and former Border Patrol officer Francisco Cantú has written poignantly about these death maps and all the “clearly marked ghosts” that dot the…

— Valeria Luiselli

“Because—how do you explain that it is never inspiration that drives you to tell a story, but rather a combination of anger and clarity?…

— Valeria Luiselli

Writers tend to think they occupy a much more relevant place in society than we actually do. But we really are closer to buffoons…

— Valeria Luiselli

“Everyone says they're empty. Everyone says – vast and flat. Everyone – mesmerizing. Nabokov probably said somewhere – indomitable. But no one had ever…

— Valeria Luiselli

I like reading the world through a writer's eyes, rather than seeing a writer looking at him or herself as if at the center…

— Valeria Luiselli

“I know I need to generate a structure full of holes so that I can always find a place for myself on the page,…

— Valeria Luiselli

Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor can be…

— Valeria Luiselli

“Perhaps it's right that words contain nothing, or almost nothing. That their content is, at the very least, variable.”

— Valeria Luiselli