We can live with lots of things, but we can’t live without imagination, we can’t live without hope. Ariel Dorfman Read Quote
I think to be in exile is a curse, and you need to turn it into a blessing. You’ve been thrown into exile to die, really, to silence you so that your voice cannot come home. And so my whole life has been dedicated to saying, ‘I will not be silenced.’ Ariel Dorfman Read Quote
You want to free the world, free humanity, from oppression? Look inside, look sideways, look at the hidden violence of language. Never forget that language is where the other, parallel violence, the cruelty exercised on the body, originates. Ariel Dorfman Read Quote
I’m a mongrel in the sense that I’m Spanish, English, Latino, Jewish, north, south – all these things are mixed in me. Ariel Dorfman Read Quote
I feel as if I can take Indian stories, make them mine and take them to the world. Ariel Dorfman Read Quote
Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally. Ariel Dorfman Read Quote
I’m the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it’s the best of both possible worlds. Ariel Dorfman Read Quote