What we're trying to do as writers is rescue, preserve this space of thoughtfulness of language, of a deeper and more honest appreciation of our real…

- Hector Tobar

I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all t…

- Hector Tobar

We're writers. What do we do? We tell stories. We make up stories. We create art.

- Hector Tobar

I am someone who is fascinated with European German history, the Holocaust, and to see these parallels in our own democratic system, and then to see …

- Hector Tobar

Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

- Hector Tobar

There's a lot of really wonderful things about the United States of America, especially its ethnic diversity and its mostly successful struggle to cr…

- Hector Tobar

In the Latino community, the Trump campaign, even when it seemed it was a long shot he would be elected president, his campaign itself just caused lo…

- Hector Tobar

I just feel that art is more important than ever, that art is something that can unify us, that can make America stronger.

- Hector Tobar

Undocumented people have been targeted for years now. Even under the Obama administration, there was a really large number of deportations of undocum…

- Hector Tobar