137 Quotes by Laura Esquivel

There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room.

In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings.

For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.

As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.

Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes, revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and summoning us to regain the divine origins we had lost. The soul ever longs to return to the place from which it came, leaving the body lifeless.

To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.

Take care to chop the onion fine.