Certain Quote by Oscar Hijuelos

“Glorious life ending. There must have been a moment when his son had gasped for air, the last time, as Jesus must. But as…

— Oscar Hijuelos

Music infuses your spirit with a certain energy that I try to convey in my work.

— Oscar Hijuelos

People in their forties, fifties, and onward enjoy the whole world of books in a different way than the Internet-age kids do.

— Oscar Hijuelos

Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while…

— Oscar Hijuelos

“The house in which the fourteen sisters of Emilio Montez O'brien lived, radiated femininity.”

— Oscar Hijuelos

If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.

— Oscar Hijuelos

It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't…

— 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…

— Oscar Hijuelos

Latins are predisposed to thinking about the past. Catholicism has a lot to do with it because Catholicism is a contemplation of the past,…

— 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…

— Oscar Hijuelos

“On his back, Robert must have had time to see something beautiful, and not just the ugliness of a city street at the end…

— 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,…

— Oscar Hijuelos