Gary Soto Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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

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