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A great novel is worth one thousand films.
Oscar Hijuelos / Novelist
Film
Novel
Writing
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Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.
Oscar Hijuelos / Novelist
Work Music Your
Convey
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
Oscar Hijuelos / Novelist
Reviews
Believing
Start Believing
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As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
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Neighborhood
Latinos
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I have never - I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best friends.
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Contacts
Let Go
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People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.
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World People Way
Forties
Fifties
Onward
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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.
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Talented
Forth
Published
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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.
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Atmosphere
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A lot of people consider my books to be straightforward, but I think that I write from atmosphere to atmosphere rather than from event to event.
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Book
Thinking
Writing
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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.
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Know Who Want
Duke
Memoirs
Twenty
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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Circumstances
Latin
Considered
Aside
Fare
To Be Honest
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Oh yes!...The sweet summons of God to man. That's when He calls you up to His arms. And it's the most beautiful thing, a rebirth, a new life. But, just the same I'm in no rush to find out.
Oscar Hijuelos / Novelist
Men
Beautiful
Sweet
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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Emotionally
Immigrant
Locally
One Country
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Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past, of symbols that are supposed to be eternally present.
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Catholicism
Contemplation
Latin
Eternally
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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.
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Factual
Nonfiction
Pertinent
Relevance
Invent
Pack
Whereas
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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.
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Contemporary
Fascinated
Stations
Urban
Walks
Love Poetry Music
Gospel
Beat
New Kind
Soul Music
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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.
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Catholic
Catholic Church
Function
Gold
Nightclubs
Poor People
Starving
Churches
Equivalent
Fill
Country People Poor
Mansion
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As a fiction writer you train yourself to think about situations subjectively. I don't really care for narratives that are just A, B, C, D, and then E. I like the aura that fiction has, how it can conjure up dream imagery. It's a sort of emotional speculation that you can shape and work with.
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Dream
Emotional
Thinking
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I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what I would eventually encounter in terms of people who weren't being sincere. I'm not saying that it happens always or a lot, but it happens enough that sometimes it makes me feel a little queasy.
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Encounters
People
Writing
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If I write a paragraph and I don't get a certain lift from it, if I don't feel connected to it emotionally, then it's dead to me. When I'm reading other fiction writers, if I don't get any emotional investment from the writer, if it's just intellectual or clever - you know, most writing that passes as deep is just clever - I don't feel any connection.
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Clever
Reading
Writing
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