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Gary Soto Quotes

I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.

I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.

Gary Soto
Writing, Firsts, Sentences

You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book.

Gary Soto
Book, Reading, People

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

Because nothing should be wasted In a world where sparrows work hard To prove there is enough.

Gary Soto
Hard Work, World, Sparrows

I drank that sentence and began to glow.

Gary Soto
Drank, Sentences
Gary Soto (2012). “Partly Cloudy: Poems of Love and Longing”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere

Gary Soto
Back And Forth
Gary Soto (2006). “Buried Onions”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Dirt rolls from his palm, Blades of grass Tumble from his hair.

Gary Soto
Nature, Hair, Dirt
Gary Soto (1992). “Neighborhood Odes”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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