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Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

I love books with titles like, 'How Do You Spank a Porcupine?,' 'Arnie, the Darling Starling,' or 'The Bat in My Pocket.'

Luis Alberto Urrea

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: mexican
Birth: August 20, 1955

Topics

Love You Titles Darling Bat Books

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

Funny Great Depression Men People

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

Architecture Better Buildings Look

My wife taught me the importance of living well.

Wife Me Living Well Importance

You test yourself. That's what real fighters do.

Yourself You Test Real Fighters

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

Want Watch Those Very Guys Often

For some reason, I have always had a really good ability to write children in a way that's realistic but not annoying. The key to that is underwriting them: peel back the dialogue and keep it simple.

Good Children Simple Key Back Way

We want to grow old together, and even when we won't have fame, success, fans, we know we will still be sticking to each other.

Amruta Khanvilkar

Success Together Grow Know Want Old

I'm scared of failure so much more than any of the other girls I compete against that I work so much harder than they possibly could. I'm totally down with spiders and frogs and heights and snakes - everything; I'm cool with it.

Work Failure Cool Down Heights More

Young people need to know there are ways for them to navigate this life.

Life People Know Young Need Ways

The great thing about baseball is the causality is easy to determine and it always falls on the shoulders of one person. So there is absolute responsibility. That's why baseball is psychologically the cruelest sport and why it really requires psychological resources to play baseball - because you have to learn to live with failure.

Michael Mandelbaum

Failure Live Great Responsibility

I feel like I haven't done my best work yet.

Work Best Feel Done I Feel Like

I cycle whenever possible around London. But I travel first class when I need to fly.

Travel Fly Class London Possible

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