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
Laura Esquivel quotes about
love-life literature love-literature
No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.
powerful eye light
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.
things-in-life essentials given
There are some things in life that shouldn't be given so much importance, if they don't change what is essential.
tears onions next
The trouble with crying over an onion is that once the chopping gets you started and the tears begin to well up, the next thing you know you just can’t stop!
soup pot celebrate
"Only the pots know the boiling points of the broths," she says as Tita weeps into the wedding batter she is making to celebrate the marriage of her sister to her own true love.
personality topics facts
The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or unfortunate facts, religion, or politics.
communication keeping-secrets keys
Keeping secrets will always lead to unhappiness and communication is the key to love.
space space-between
there's only a space between now and here to get yourself nowhere.
order would-be phases
Once again she would arrive at a foreign place. Once again be the newcomer, an outsider, the one who did not belong. She knew from experience that she would quickly have to ingratiate herself with her new masters to avoid being rejected or, in more dire cases, punished. Then there would be the phase where she would have to sharpen her senses in order to see and hear as acutely as possible so that she could assimilate quickly all the new customs and the words most frequently used by the group she was to become a part of--so that finally, she would be judged on her own merits.
heartbreaking way
When you're told there's no way you can marry the woman you love and your only hope of being near her is to marry her sister, wouldn't you do the same?
air candle earth four helps recognize
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.
everybody forces human industry magic natural nature people technology
There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
across built chapel churches dining grew home house illegal lived street
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.
cinema deeper dig easily express form human images inner novel
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.