Valeria Luiselli Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: b. August 16, 1983
Birthday: August 16
Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor can be inverted. The journeys we make during the reading of a book trace out, in some way, the private spaces we inhabit. There are texts that will always be our dead-end streets; fragments that will be bridges; words that will be like the scaffolding that protects fragile constructions.
topic: Reading, Book, Journey, Scaffolding
