I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.

I want children who feel embarrassed because they speak Spanish to realize that there are places where the beautiful Spanish they speak is an asset.

I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me

I often focus more on language than on the conveying of information.

It is always a tense moment for an author to see how someone hasillustrated his or her story, because the author has lived for so long with these characters, sometimes for years.

I will never know what it's like to have only one language in my head. I have the pleasure of being able to move back and forth between Spanish and English, and I incorporate both languages in my books.

Your Texas is no different than my Texas.