Gary Soto famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.
-- Gary Soto

#Writing #Firsts #Sentences
Because nothing should be wasted In a world where sparrows work hard To prove there is enough.
-- Gary Soto

#Hard Work #World #Sparrows
It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I discovered that reading builds a life inside the mind.
-- Gary Soto

#Book #Reading #Mind
going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere
-- Gary Soto
The black asphalt wouls shimmer with vapors I had a theory about those vapors...not released by the sun but by a huge onion buried under the city. This onion made us cry... I thought about the giant onion, that remarkable bulb of sadness.
-- Gary Soto

#Sadness #Cities #Black
I drank that sentence and began to glow.
-- Gary Soto

#Drank #Sentences
You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book.
-- Gary Soto

#Book #Reading #People
Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair.
-- Gary Soto

#Nature #Hair #Dirt

This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.
I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
My hobbies are run-on sentences.
A preposition is a word You mustn't end a sentence with!

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