Julia Alvarez Quotes
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The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.
Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.
I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.
A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.
Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.
A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.
Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.
I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.
Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.
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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Life is a series of problems.
The more intelligent our children, the better our lives and the richer our culture will be.
Editing while you're writing is like strangling the baby in the crib.
It is a thousand times more sensible to climb one foot up the mountainside than to chatter for years about the mountaintop.
It's almost like putting armor on a woman. It's a very psychological way of dressing.
Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.