Quotes About Julia Alvarez

#1. How we lie to ourselves when we've fallen in love with the wrong man.

Julia Alvarez

#2. John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.

Jeremy Piven

#3. Depression is always in the details.

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#4. I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.

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#5. It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a young student who is inspired to write me and let me know that my book has helped him or her find her way.

Julia Alvarez

#6. The elasticity of imagination and compassion is what writing and reading promote.

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#7. The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.

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#8. Reading and thoughtfulness and openness are the best way, I should think, to begin to address the richness that is in each of us.

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#9. But the sensibility of the writer, whether fiction or poetry, comes from paying attention. I tell my students that writing doesn't begin when you sit down to write. It's a way of being in the world, and the essence of it is paying attention.

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#10. A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

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#11. There is no end to what can be said about the world

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#12. He loved three things
in this life:
Vespers, white peacocks,
And old maps of America,
Didn't love children crying,
Raspberries with tea,
Or feminine hysteria
... And I
was his wife.

Anna Akhmatova

#13. Marjorie Agosin proves the power of the word to transport us to the center of her humane and human vision.

Julia Alvarez

#14. It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.

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#15. Independence didn't have to be exile.

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#16. Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

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#17. She's an adversary, but undeniably an equal. Maybe she can bring me back from the beyond. If anyone can do it, I'm beginning to realize it could be her. Like she said, all I have to do is try.

Collette West

#18. I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty.

Jacqueline Bisset

#19. Freesia, and hugged her tightly in return. I'd missed

Aimee Carter

#20. Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to have discussion about what these situations are like.

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#21. Everyone wants to turn on their TV and have a break from their normal day.

Megyn Price

#22. Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more modest than immodest.

Walt Whitman

#23. Do I need grab the sheets or boil some water or something?" "That depends on if you're trying to get stains out of my bedspread." Lulu grunted. Obviously she was in pain, and obviously I wasn't the type of person you wanted to bring with you to a medical emergency.

Conner Kressley

#24. I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

Julia Alvarez

#25. Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.

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#26. I write to find out what I am thinking.
I write to find out who I am.
I write to understand things.

Julia Alvarez

#27. Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.

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#28. When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.

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#29. Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

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#30. Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

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#31. It doesn't make any sense. If the SIM are policemen, secret or not, shouldn't we trust them instead of being afraid of them?

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#32. Terrence, the Roman slave who freed himself with his writings, once observed, "I am a human being. Nothing human is alien to me." That could be the motto of literature!

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#33. Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.

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#34. A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

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#35. I think it is important to know how to teach new material to help young people grow and learn.

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