Mexican - Poet | August 20, 1955 -
The tone of 'Into the Beautiful North' is really the way I write. 'Hummingbird's Daughter' was the anomaly. It was a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon.
Luis Alberto Urrea
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A great Chicano forebear of mine in writing is Rolando Hinojosa-Smith. He was writing good border mysteries for Chicano readers back in the '80s and '90s.
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I was deeply infected with storytelling from the get go, and I truly love it.
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I am actually a 'Seven Samurai' fan.
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I've been told not to tour down in Mexico. I am too well-known now. The kidnappers may think that my publisher will pay a ransom.
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To me, writing is prayer. I pray all the time.
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I'm interested in the eternal soul. That's what I write about.
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I'm always fascinated by the disjunct between what's really happening on the ground and the propaganda machine that feeds America alarmist news about immigration.
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It became really important to me if I was going to write 'Hummingbird's Daughter' to try to do honor to women.
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We're all funny. Humor unites us.
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Writers write without support.
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When I was a little boy in Tijuana, it was wonderland. We left when I was probably four - I was dying of tuberculosis.
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