Pat Mora Quotes

• I want children who feel embarrassed because they speak Spanish to realize that there are places where the beautiful Spanish they speak is an asset.

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  Beautiful, Children, Want

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• I will never know what it's like to have only one language in my head. I have the pleasure of being able to move back and forth between Spanish and English, and I incorporate both languages in my books.

  Pat Mora

  Moving, Book, Able

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• I write because I am curious. I am curious about me.

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  Writing, Curious

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• Writers are always diverse on the inside.

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  Diverso

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• If we're trying to excite young people about reading, we need to be experiencingbookjoy ourselves so that we have references to make. It's important to be able to say, "You know, I read the most wonderful poem the other day. Let me tell you about it."

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  Reading, People, Important

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• Siento un profundo apego por el mundo natural. Es una gran influencia en mi forma de escribir, y mientras contemplo las maravillosas colinas nevadas de Santa Fe, doy gracias por cada día que vivo aquí.

  Pat Mora

  Grateful, Writing, Attachment

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• I did realize, as do you, how blessed I was to know bookjoy, the private pleasure of savoring text.

  Pat Mora

  Book, Blessed, Realizing

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• Teachers and librarians can be the most effective advocates for diversifying children's and young adult books. When I speak to publishers, they're going to expect me to say that I would love to see more books by Native American authors and African-American authors and Arab-American authors. But when a teacher or librarian says this to publishers, it can have a profound effect.

  Pat Mora

  Profesor, Niños, Libro

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• I became a good writer when I saw the age of forty coming at me

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  Age, Saws, Forty

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• Your Texas is no different than my Texas.

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  Texas, Different

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• It is always a tense moment for an author to see how someone hasillustrated his or her story, because the author has lived for so long with these characters, sometimes for years.

  Pat Mora

  Carácter, Años, Largos

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• I often focus more on language than on the conveying of information.

  Pat Mora

  Focus, Information, Language

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• I usually begin a poem in longhand. I like to sit where I have a nice view, ideally, although I worked on haiku this weekend at an airport. I'm not one to romanticize inspiration. I try to get to the work.

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  Nice, Inspiration, Weekend

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• When I'm writing poetry, 99.9% of my writing begins in English. I spent most of my life in English, although I am bilingual.

  Pat Mora

  Writing, Writing Poetry

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