26 Quotes by Julia Alvarez

Don’t plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.

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

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.

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

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

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

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.

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

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