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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.

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

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

A great novel is worth one thousand films.

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

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

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

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

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.