Oscar Hijuelos famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A great novel is worth one thousand films.
-- Oscar Hijuelos

#Writing #Film #Novel
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

#Beautiful #Sweet #Men
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.
-- Oscar Hijuelos

#Book #Writing #Thinking
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.
-- Oscar Hijuelos

#Dream #Emotional #Thinking
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.
-- Oscar Hijuelos

#Writing #People #Encounters
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.
-- Oscar Hijuelos

#Clever #Reading #Writing

My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
Indian film awards lack credibility.
I don't care if I get $50 million to do a film.
A successful film is a good film, and a non-successful film is a bad film. It's as simple as that.
NOVEL, n. A short story padded...
A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
I save the best of myself for novels, and I believe it shows

Oscar Hijuelos famous quotes

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