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" I have never - I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best friends. "

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" When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance. "

" I teach at Duke, and I have students who are all of twenty who want to write memoirs, and you know it's all pretty interesting stuff, but a lot of them lack gravitas, you know. "

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" I enjoy listening to contemporary rock on the college stations while I'm taking long walks, love gospel and soul music, am fascinated by hip-hop and rap as the new kind of urban 'beat' poetry and, come to think of it, find something interesting about just any kind of music. "

" 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 travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally. "

" As a kid I had all kinds of questions about how I fit it with my neighborhood and friends and other Latinos. "

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

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

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

" I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do. "

" Nightclubs are the equivalent of a Catholic Church in a poor country. You hear a lot of stuff about churches filled with gold while the people are starving. But what elitists don't get is that for poor people, the church is their own mansion. Nightclubs fill the same function. "