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Oscar Hijuelos Quotes

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.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Best Help I Can Young Try Get

Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture.

Culture Words Happy People Book You

I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen to what I do. But they have this additional aspect of how they take the stuff that I do, and so it broadens the work, and it creates this strange connection.

Work Myself People Finding Person

I'd like to have kids at some point. I think I'll have a family someday.

Anderson Cooper

Family Think Point Someday Kids

Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.

John Patrick Shanley

Life Challenge Interesting Trying

But, you know, I'd be happy just making music.

Music Happy Be Happy You Know Just

You know how much money I could have made playing professional football as a tight end? But I can't jump, and I can't run fast. That was my problem.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Money Football End Problem You Run

When you talk about evangelicals, don't forget that a significant proportion of the evangelical community is African American. And most African Americans - well over 90 percent, thoroughly evangelical, thoroughly biblical - will probably vote Democratic.

Community American You Forget Vote

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam.

War Think Party Stop Republican

I've made my best personal investments when I've been a user of the product. Like Apple. The epiphany for me came when I purchased my fifth iPod and I hadn't unwrapped my fourth. It was still in the plastic case.

Best Me Apple Personal Plastic Been

We've always operated under the belief that you could run a video game business as professionally as you could run a consumer packaged goods business, and you wouldn't diminish creativity.

Business Creativity Game You Run

The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.

Truth Truth Is Enough Ridiculous

A role needs a certain tone, so your own tone also changes. It's not like I lock myself up in a room to get into the zone. It is based on what I am feeling, because the minute you try too much, weird things happen. Of course, for an intense role you need some silence, and you need to do a lot of thinking.

Myself Silence I Am Thinking Weird

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