Gustavo Perez Firmat Quotes

• The fact that I
  am writing to you
  in English
  already falsifies what I
  wanted to tell you.
  My subject:
  how to explain to you that I
  don't belong to English
  though I belong nowhere else

  Gustavo Pérez Firmat

  Writing, Facts, Wanted

  Roberto Tinoco Duran, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Gustavo Pérez Firmat (1987). “Triple Crown: Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Cuban-American Poetry”, Bilingual Review Press

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• My writing, such as it is, grows out of my sense of discolation, I mean, dislocation. Having lost my place, I write to find my place, or to find once again that I have lost my place.

  Gustavo Pérez Firmat

  Writing, Mean, Lost

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

  Gustavo Pérez Firmat

  Usa, Cuba, Born

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• My father's death took me to a place I had never been and a place I had never left. In his absence, I've had to rely more on myself.

  Gustavo Pérez Firmat

  Father, Absence, Rely

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

  Gustavo Pérez Firmat

  Solitario

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• Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have to say, but I always seem to find a new way of repeating myself.

  Gustavo Pérez Firmat

  Book, Thinking, Finishing

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

  Gustavo Pérez Firmat

  Breathing, Literature, Might

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• Cuando era más joven, me horrorizaba tener que escribir. Buscaba todas las excusas posibles para no sentarme ante la máquina de escribir (de esto hace ya mucho tiempo). Con los años, he aprendido a disfrutar componiendo frases, aunque sigo creyendo que escribir, a diferencia del sexo, siempre es mejor después de hacerlo.

  Gustavo Pérez Firmat

  Sex, Believe, Writing

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• I say that being a smart writer doesn't make you a good writer. There's obviously a difference between talent and intelligence. And it may be that at some point intelligence begins to impinge on talent, or talent on intelligence.

  Gustavo Pérez Firmat

  Smart, Differences, May

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• I read fiction all the time. It's true that I don't like fantasy or science fiction. I like "realistic" novels, particularly those in which nothing much ever happens.

  Gustavo Pérez Firmat

  Fiction, Fantasy, Realistic

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• There's a Cuban saying: Bicho malo nunca muere. Loose translation: The good die young but the wicked live forever. It seems to apply to Fidel. I hope it applies to me.

  Gustavo Pérez Firmat

  Forever, Wicked, Cuban

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• For me the path to the literary goes through the non - literary. For this reason it surprises me that I am a writer, or that people speak of me as a writer. I'm flattered, but I don't quite believe it.

  Gustavo Pérez Firmat

  Creer, Gente, Camino

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• Teaching is my most reliable form of human contact. I love the opportunity to speak Spanish (which I don't do at home), the give-and-take with students, the surprises. One day you think you have the goods for a sensational class and it bombs. The next day you have nothing and the class turns out splendidly.

  Gustavo Pérez Firmat

  Teaching, Home, Opportunity

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