A great novel is worth one thousand films.

- Oscar Hijuelos

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 …

- Oscar Hijuelos

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 ot…

- Oscar Hijuelos

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 i…

- Oscar Hijuelos

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, ju…

- Oscar Hijuelos

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