Gary Soto Quotes

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“Mine is literary, and mine has a story to tell about a little boy with gaps in his education who became a writer. I’m hoping that the visitor will be curious, not unlike when someone goes to another person’s house for the first time—you look around and learn something about that person. We’re curious creatures, right?”

Gary Soto

On the Gary Soto Literary Museum in Fresno, California in “Jo Ellen Misakian Interviews Author Gary Soto on His New Books, Writing & the Gary Soto Literary Museum” https://cynthialeitichsmith.com/2011/10/jo-ellen-misakian-interviews-author/ (Cynthia Leitich Smith site)

Time , Housing , Personality , Hope

“As a writer, I'm trying to capture the voice of my characters, who sometimes will speak in Spanglish…”

Gary Soto

[Often my characters—a Jesus, a Hector, a Gloria—will be bilingual, or if not bilingual at least know enough Spanish to throw words and phrases into conversation.]

On his characters being bilingual in “In-depth Written Interview with Gary Soto” https://www.teachingbooks.net/interview.cgi?a=1&id=47 in Teaching Books (2007 Aug 29)