I would like my readers to levitate when they read the novel. I believe that there is too much violence and coarseness in the world, not just in book… - Daína Chaviano
" "I would like my readers to levitate when they read the novel. I believe that there is too much violence and coarseness in the world, not just in books, but on television as well. People become degraded when they overuse these things. As I writer, I feel it is my challenge to come up with a phrase that can convey all the anguish a human being feels and to express it in a poetic way. Literature becomes simplistic when two out of every three words are vulgarisms. It requires no effort on the part of the creator or the reader.
English
Collect this quote
About Daína Chaviano
Daína Chaviano (Spanish: [daˈina tʃaˈβjano]) (born 19 February 1957, Havana, Cuba) is a writer of French and Asturian descent. She has lived in the United States since 1991.
Also Known As
Alternative Names:
Daina Chaviano
Related quotes. More quotes will automatically load as you scroll down, or you can use the load more buttons.
Additional quotes by Daína Chaviano
Exile was where I was able to complete the amended or mutilated spaces that I was still missing to understand Cuba’s history. My novels, riddled with ghosts, journeys in time, mythological reinterpretations, are how I try to give a coherent image so as to reconstruct that incomplete reality which I was shown.
Cuba is a ghost that feeds my literature...The seedling of what I am today took root on that island. But, that Cuba no longer exists, except for in my memories and my generation’s collective imagination. This is why it is a mythical and real land at the same time, which continues to sustain my ideas and dreams.
Loading...