Gustavo Perez Firmat

I was born in Cuba but was made in the USA.

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

I am a loner by nature, and then I'm a writer, which makes me twice a loner.

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

Literature is breathing. I teach literature the way someone else might teach First Aid.

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

There's a Cuban saying: Bicho malo nunca muere. Loose translation: The good die young but the wicked live forever. It seems to…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence,…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

Teaching is my most reliable form of human contact. I love the opportunity to speak Spanish (which I don't do at home),…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

For me the path to the literary goes through the non - literary. For this reason it surprises me that I am…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

“The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to…

— Gustavo Pérez Firmat

When I was younger, I dreaded having to write. I would find every possible excuse not to sit down at the typewriter…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

I say that being a smart writer doesn't make you a good writer. There's obviously a difference between talent and intelligence. And…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat

My writing, such as it is, grows out of my sense of discolation, I mean, dislocation. Having lost my place, I write…

— Gustavo Perez Firmat