Top 32 Hijuelos Quotes
#1. Unfortunately, kids are led to believe things are easier to achieve than they really are.
Buzz Aldrin
#2. I went to some classes. Vampire was in the Hair of Magical Magic Creatures. He looked all depressed because Draco had disappeared and he had used to be in love with Draco. He was sucking some blood from a Hufflepuff.
Tara Gilesbie
#3. Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.
Fred G. Gosman
#4. And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.
Tiffanie DeBartolo
#5. I have never - I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best friends.
Oscar Hijuelos
#6. 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.
Oscar Hijuelos
#7. The fewer moving parts, the better." "Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering.
Christian Cantrell
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.
Beyonce Knowles
#13. Can I ask you a question? Ya just did.
Can I ask you 2 questions then?
Ya just did.
Ohh, so you're a smart ass
Maggie Stiefvater
#14. 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.
Oscar Hijuelos
#16. Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.
Oscar Hijuelos
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
Alice Hoffman
#20. As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos.
Oscar Hijuelos
#21. The house in which the fourteen sisters of Emilio Montez O'brien lived, radiated femininity.
Oscar Hijuelos
#22. In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure; it is the personal practice of the presence of God.
Wilferd Peterson
#23. 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
#24. She is clothed with strength and dignity; she can laugh at the days to come. She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
Paula Masters
#25. The first day, in particular, is always one of those weird days because you get ... , you're thrown into this new trailer - here's your wardrobe.
Mekhi Phifer
#26. Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. (1 Peter 5:8)
Bible. New International Version
#28. 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
#29. If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
Oscar Hijuelos
#30. GE sells more than 96 percent of its products to the private sector, where America's future must be built. But government can help business invest in our shared future.
Jeffrey R. Immelt
#31. 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.
Oscar Hijuelos
#32. 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
