Laura Esquivel
Laura Esquivel
Laura Esquivelis a Mexican novelist, essayist, and screenwriter who has made noted contributions to Latin-American literature. Her first novel Como agua para chocolatebecame a bestseller in Mexico and the United States, and was later developed into an award-winning film...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth30 September 1950
CityMexico City, Mexico
CountryMexico
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Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.
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In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings.
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I grew up in a modern home, but my grandmother lived across the street in an old house that was built when churches were illegal in Mexico. She had a chapel in the home, right between the kitchen and dining room.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.
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I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.
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You must take care to light the matches one at a time. If a powerful emotion should ignite them all at once, they would produce a splendor so dazzling that it would illuminate far beyond what we can normally see; and then a brilliant tunnel would appear before our eyes, revealing the path we forgot the moment we were born, and summoning us to regain the divine origins we had lost. The soul ever longs to return to the place from which it came, leaving the body lifeless.
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To know how to produce a work of art is to know how to discard the extraneous.
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Take care to chop the onion fine.
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No matter how successful a relationship may be, both sexually and emotionally, the lack of money can hamper and undermine, little by little, even the greatest passion.
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As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self understanding and this is something that can't be taught.