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All Quotes by author - Hector Tobar
" As a professional journalist, I've been interviewing people for almost thirty years. And the one thing I've learned from all those interviews is that I am always going to be surprised. "
Professional
People
I Am
" Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so. "
Up
Illegal
Chile
" I come from a family of working people. My parents were Guatemalan immigrants who spent most of their lives in the service industry. "
Family
Parents
People
" I spent my whole life as a writer talking to just the average guy in Los Angeles and Latin America, talking to working people. "
Working
America
Life
" I think, as journalists, we sometimes are afraid to enter into the emotional lives and the complications of the lives of the people we write about - we don't really have the space and the room to deal with those things. But as a novelist, that's precisely what you're writing about. "
Think
People
Space
" I think even a hero is someone who has sort of the flaw or imperfection of character. I remember Alice Walker saying that once - she'd written a novel about a civil rights hero, and it was someone who had this flaw, this central flaw. "
Saying
Think
Character
" I've never been on a paperback tour before, you know, because usually you go on tour when a hardcover comes out. "
You
Because
Before
" My job is to listen and to ask questions and to be respectful and win the trust of my subjects so that I can work my way into their memories and their point of view. "
Win
Work
Memories
" The influence of cinema on all contemporary writers is undeniable. Because film is such a powerful and popular art form, we prose writers think cinematically. "
Art
Think
Powerful
" You cannot bribe a Chilean police officer - I know this firsthand. "
Police
You
Bribe
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