Gary Soto > Quotes

“Because nothing should be wasted
In a world where sparrows work hard
To prove there is enough.”
― Gary Soto, The Elements of San Joaquin

“I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.”
― Gary Soto, New and Selected Poems

“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

“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, Buried Onions

“going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere”
― Gary Soto, Buried Onions