Laura Esquivel's Quotes

As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.

For me, love is the most important force. It moves the universe.

I watch cooking change the cook, just as it transforms the food.

Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.

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.

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.

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.