Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

Words are the only bread we can really share.

If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

Poverty ennobles no one; it brutalizes common people and makes them hungry and old.

Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity.

Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood.

The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.

I once made the mistake of writing a story with David Corbett. The man smoked me. He can delineate the character and personality of an accordion in three strokes. I didn't even know accordions had character. This act of generosity and wisdom from a very good writer will help anyone who is staring at a blank page, any day, any time. Highly recommended.