Luis Alberto Urrea Quotes

We tell ourselves stories in order to live.

There is only one type of story in the world-your story.

Story is metaphor for life and life is lived in time.

To me and my kind life itself is a story and we have to tell it in stories - that is the way it falls.

I had always felt life first as a story: and if there is a story there is a story-teller

'Puffball' is a love story... no, it's a life story.

Life is our dictionary.

I'm always curious what the world is trying to tell story wise.

I'll be a story in your head. But that's OK. We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Because it was, you know; it was the best.

It was not a life, if lived without love.

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

We all - in the end - die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.

I don't know of a greater privilege than being allowed to tell a story, or to listen to a story. They're the only thing we have that can trump life itself.

You have to understand, my dears, that the shortest distance between truth and a human being is a story.

In my perception, the world wasn't a graph or formula or an equation. It was a story.

The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it.

This world of ours has been constructed like a superbly written novel: we pursue the tale with avidity, hoping to discover the plot.

Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.

A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.

Reality is the page. Life is the word.

We don't only tell stories when we set out to tell stories, our memory tells us stories. That is, what we get to keep from our experiences is a story.

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.