Jennine Capó Crucet

I really started considering myself a writer when I was about seven or eight years old. I wrote stories from my dreams…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

My husband is a huge source of support and love.

— Jennine Capó Crucet

I remember being so homesick and realizing that where I came from was not something that existed in the cultural imagination outside…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

'Some day,' I said, 'I will be an author.'

— Jennine Capó Crucet

You leave home, and then when you come back, you have a kind of perspective that you didn't have before that in…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

I used to work for a non-profit organization where I worked as a mentor and a counselor to first-generation college student and…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

My parents were more surprised that I wanted to go away for school than anything. They didn't really understand the benefits.

— Jennine Capó Crucet

I have not been to Cuba, though if you count the stories my grandma told me growing up, I've been there in…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

It seems disrespectful to my parents who left... to hear their story over and over again which always ends with... 'and I'll…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

I was a first-generation college student as well as the first in our family to be born in America - my parents…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

I've had lots of wonderful people help motivate me over the years to work hard and write.

— Jennine Capó Crucet

When I left for college, my mom really latched on to the dog; She started buying him little outfits and calling him…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

I was in Minnesota and Illinois when I wrote 'How to Leave Hialeah.' When I come to Miami, I'm happy. I don't…

— Jennine Capó Crucet

People really saw themselves in a big way in Elian Gonzalez's story.

— Jennine Capó Crucet

While my college had done an excellent job recruiting me, I had no road map for what I was supposed to do…

— Jennine Capó Crucet