Gary Soto's Quotes & Sayings

I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences. — Gary Soto

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

Going back and forth, back and forth, getting nowhere — Gary Soto

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

I'll be the invisible girl,
Everyone passing through me,
No one touching. — 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

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

I drank that sentence and began to glow. — Gary Soto

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