Oscar Hijuelos Quotes

If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.

Oscar Hijuelos

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 24, 1951 - October 12, 2013

Topics

StartYouTroubleBelievingPress

The apocalypse is not around the corner.

Jim Sensenbrenner

CornerAroundApocalypse

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

Robert M. Pirsig

ExperienceQualityIntellectualPrior

They that die by famine die by inches.

Matthew Henry

DieInchesFamine

I found a discarded textbook on calculus in a wastebasket and read it from cover to cover.

John Pople

FoundReadCalculusCoverDiscarded

I'm not one to intellectualize why I did something.

Spike Jonze

WhySomethingDid

Thanks to social media like Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads, I can easily reach out to so many people. Being a writer gives me the added bonus of a targeted audience: readers, who enjoy targeted 'prizes' for participation in fundraisers - books and other neat promo items.

Lori Foster

Social MediaPeopleMeMediaEnjoy

I think the word 'progressive' is a very devious term. It was created as a substitute for 'communist.' What they propose is the reverse of progress.

Jon Voight

ProgressThinkProgressiveCommunist

As a writer, when you fall in love with a place, you want to spend more time in it, either physically or mentally, and so you write about it.

Don Winslow

LoveTimeYouFallPlaceWant

It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.

Dominika Cibulkova

YourselfBe YourselfYouBecomeVery

You can't win them all.

Connie Mack

WinYouThem

My basic approach to interviewing is to ask the basic questions that might even sound naive, or not intellectual. Sometimes when you ask the simple questions like 'Who are you?' or 'What do you do?' you learn the most.

Brian Lamb

SimpleLearnQuestionsYouSometimes

You must bring a white-hot level of intensity and focus to your work.

Clay Clark

WorkFocusYouBringLevelMust

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