I like reading the world through a writer's eyes, rather than seeing a writer looking at him or herself as if at the center of gravity of the world around them. Valeria Luiselli More Quotes by Valeria Luiselli More Quotes From Valeria Luiselli Cities have often been compared to language: you can read a city, it's said, as you read a book. But the metaphor can be inverted. The journeys we make during the reading of a book trace out, in some way, the private spaces we inhabit. There are texts that will always be our dead-end streets; fragments that will be bridges; words that will be like the scaffolding that protects fragile constructions. Valeria Luiselli reading journey book Writers tend to think they occupy a much more relevant place in society than we actually do. But we really are closer to buffoons and jesters than we are to whistle-blowers or moral guides. Accepting our rather insignificant place in society can be depressing - but it's also freeing. Valeria Luiselli moral depressing thinking I can always, quite easily, put myself in other people's shoes, so to speak, and look at the world through them. Valeria Luiselli speak world I learned to keep at a certain distance from things - and to make myself a little bit invisible while I observed and understood them. Valeria Luiselli invisible distance
