"I believe it’s something that happens when one is around art, and when one is close to books: they seep into your system, into your blood, and start to activate something in your life. We start living in the way that some of these characters live, with some sense of their sensibility. It’s almost as if the reader becomes the writer and the writer becomes the reader…"
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Pulitzer Prize winnersImmigrants to the United StatesPlaywrights from the United StatesCuban Americans
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On how a written work may speak to you in “Nilo Cruz by Emily Mann” in BOMB Magazine (2004 Jan 1)
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