Oscar Hijuelos Quotes

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A song about love so far away it hurts; a song about lost pleasures, a song about youth, a song about love so elusive a man can never know where he stands; a song about wanting a woman so much death does not frighten you, a song about wanting that woman even when she has abandoned you.

Oscar Hijuelos

Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.

Oscar Hijuelos

Beware of people bearing gifts. When you have fame, people come out of the woodwork who are supposedly looking out after you.

Oscar Hijuelos

My take on Cuba is partly memory-bound, partly melancholic.

Oscar Hijuelos

I read this interesting thing about the word "nostalgia," which is often used about my writing: that it comes from a term ship doctors used to describe a disease when sailors had been out to sea for a few years and were getting homesick. I've always had that, in terms of writing, this thing that is physical,that makes you homesick.

Oscar Hijuelos

My writing about Cuba [is] more like an act of creation. Whatever my Cuba is about, it's my own version. I'm not a cultural anthropologist.

Oscar Hijuelos