14 Quotes by Gustavo Pérez Firmat

The fact that Iam writing to youin Englishalready falsifies what Iwanted to tell you.My subject:how to explain to youthat I don't belong to Englishthough I belong nowhere else,if not herein English.

The fact that Iam writing to youin Englishalready falsifies what Iwanted to tell you.My subject:how to explain to you that Idon't belong to Englishthough I belong nowhere else

I de mí.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.