Cuban Quotes

You tell me one other person that graduated from Yale that is as inarticulate as Bush. Yale's a great school, and here's this idiot.

This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.

This administration affects the everyday life of the common person.

Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.

Nothing exceeds like excess.

It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records.

I've never seen the Osbournes, I've never seen Paris Hilton. I'd rather read than watch reality TV. I'd rather live life than watch somebody else living it.

I'd still prefer to do five nights at a club than one night at Allstate Arena.

Everything shapes you to be the person you are today. Sometimes hard lessons pay off dividends.

Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.

Art is commenting on what's going on around you in your life.

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course.

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.

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.

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.

I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me.

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.

I don't have any style.

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

I am against the notion of style in itself.

I am a writer of fragments.

For me, words are just words, nothing else.

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.