City Quote by Laura van den Berg Download Open image “Havana is a uniquely complicated city and contains a great many histories.” — Laura van den Berg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare City Complicated Great Great man Havana Many
Havana, for all its smells, sweat, crumbling walls, isolation, and difficult history, is the most romantic city in the world. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I feel like Havana has always been such an amazing, cosmopolitan city that it makes sense that a lot of galleries will want to… — Rachael Price Copy Share Image
Havana is one of the great cities of the world, sublimely tawdry yet stubbornly graceful, like tarnished chrome - a city, as a young… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
Cuba was fantastic, at least just in terms of... Not to romanticize or glorify it, but just seeing a place that had not really been touched by the hand of American capitalism. Because it's a genuinely different place. A lot of times when you travel, things start to feel the same from place to place to place, because the same… — Aaron McGruder Copy Share
Cuba is such a beautiful country, and everywhere you go, there's music and people dancing - especially in Havana. — Julia Sawalha Copy Share Image
Cuba is like going to a whole other planet. It's so different but it's so similar to the United States, to Miami. It's like… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
I realized that I had traveled to Havana during what now seems like the childhood of the Cuban Revolution, if you think that Fidel… — Alma Guillermoprieto Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Orlando, where the economy and culture has been powerfully shaped by tourism, and so I've long been interested… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I lived in Boston for three years, and during that time, I wrote my first collection of stories, 'What the World Will Look Like… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I take a pretty expansive view of craft, which is to say I don't see craft as just being technique - it's also process;… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
To me, in general, something that's really rich in terms of identity about transit spaces is that they're so intimate. Especially thinking about long… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
To a certain degree, I think both self-narrativizing and selective memory are essential survival skills. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
There's the public self that we present to the outer world. There's the private self, which maybe takes more time to access. But ultimately,… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I think my concern is I know my voice, and I know the kinds of landscapes that interest me, so my primary concern is… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
My students are often asking me, 'What do you think are the most important qualities for a writer?' And one thing I always tells… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
As a reader, I appreciate a world that feels unsettled and also visceral, inhabitable, so that's a quality I try and bring to my… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Youth is such a fascinating and volatile concoction of vulnerability, dependence, restlessness, relentlessness. You're still learning the terms of the world and of the… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
As a genre, the best horror poses central human questions - Who can you trust? What is the cost of our secrets? What is… — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write. — Laura van den Berg Copy Share Image
I've seen a lot of people come out of Carol City, but I had this distinct vision for Carol City, just me coming out… — Denzel Curry Copy Share Image
I always say if you put someone from a small town into a big city for ten years, then when they go back, they'll… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
I've been to Manchester enough to know it's a real place. It's not Factory Records and the Smiths bicycling around. I get it. It's… — James Murphy Copy Share Image
Though 'Fat City' was written long before cellphones or the Internet, its human apparatus is state of the art. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I get paid to play, to win, to give the city pride, so maybe everybody can forget for a little while how hard life… — Randall Cunningham Copy Share Image
In my first 100 days as Ontario's Minister of Transportation, I found a willing municipal partner in the City of Toronto that shares our… — Caroline Mulroney Copy Share Image
Even after my family moved West, I would come back to Long Island as a teenager, stay with aunts and go to the city… — Everlast Copy Share Image
We all got driven out of Manhattan. It was a very conducive place for artists when I was growing up, and now it's definitely… — Gaby Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I was always attracted most to joining City, and I am pleased to be at such a good club with such a big ambition… — Edin Dzeko Copy Share Image
I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
We have an obligation at the local level to do everything we can with the resources we have. And we do those things. But… — Ted Wheeler Copy Share Image
