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Oscar Hijuelos
Oscar Hijuelos
American Novelist
Born: Aug 24, 1951
Died: Oct 12, 2013
About Best Friends Music People You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
I have never - I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best friends. Oscar Hijuelos
Best Never Contacts Still Go Friends Childhood Let Go
If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews. Oscar Hijuelos
You Trouble Press About Read Reviews Even Believing Start Start Believing
When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece. Oscar Hijuelos
You Emotions Invent Relevance Possible Hopefully More Write Emotional Factual Piece Also Sort Nonfiction Very Fiction Whereas Pack Pertinent Bring
Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function. Oscar Hijuelos
You People Church Country Own Starving Churches About Stuff Catholic Catholic Church Equivalent Hear Lot Get Same Gold While Poor Poor People Mansion Fill Function Filled Nightclubs
I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do. Oscar Hijuelos
Best Try Young Writers Talented Like Encourage Get Them Forth Help Published
People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do. Oscar Hijuelos
People World Enjoy Books Way Kids Onward Than Different Fifties Forties Whole Different Way
As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos. Oscar Hijuelos
Other Kid Latinos Neighborhood Kinds About Had How Fit Questions Friends
I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know. Oscar Hijuelos
You Memoirs Pretty Write Students Stuff Know Duke Lot Lack Want Interesting Them Teach Who Twenty
I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music. Oscar Hijuelos
Love Music Soul Listening College Long Walks Enjoy Think Stations Rap Kind Find About Something Poetry Beat Taking New Come Contemporary Gospel Soul Music Rock Am Hip-Hop New Kind Any Just While Urban Interesting Fascinated
When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance. Oscar Hijuelos
Work You Writing Way Would Atmosphere Write Emotional Call Least Novel

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