8 Quotes by Quiara Alegría Hudes

on writingWith clarityWith loveWith assWith ecstasyWith open wounds & genius & common sidewalk truthWith your fleshy body in this material worldWith all your selves, here & gone,& the army of benevolent ancestors at your backGo

On writingEach story is two stories: its absence and presence, its voice and its silence. What would the world be without this particular story? What is the world now, with this story?Write the ones that fill a void. The ones whose absence would mean a less complete world.

I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.

I love writing. It makes me so happy.

I'll kind of get interested in a subject and I won't know why. It'll be in my head for many years and I'll say, 'Do I know enough here to research?'

The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.

I am myself of a mixed background.

I love researching, I love interviewing.