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Quotes by Cuban Authors
"The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters."
"It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense."
"My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music."
"As far as pleasures, you've got to have limits. You shouldn't have too much of good things, so you'll always have a desire for more and you won't get bored."
"I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face."
"It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down."
"When I testified in front of Congress, I know that I was testifying under oath and I told the truth."
"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."
"You would give up your career if you lost your voice for good, or if the impresarios stopped calling, or the audiences stopped coming. But as long as those things are there, I don't plan to stop. There is nothing that makes me feel better than to be with my public."
"The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong."
"I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena."
"So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me."
"We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from."
"I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game."
"I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it."
"When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader."
"A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set."
"I might be a Cuban American, but I'm also an Afro-Cuban American."
"With this new album, I prepared for it a long time, and I was happy with the songs and the production. I felt that I proved myself with the first album, and with this new album, I just want to share some of my music. And that was always my feeling and my intention."
"I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself."
"You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them."
"My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread."
"I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship."
"Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends."
"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."
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