Cristina García (journalist)

Cristina García (born July 4, 1958) is a Cuban-born American journalist and novelist.



Quotes

 * I was more interested in how the Spanish American War was a historical divide in terms of what happened physically to Cuba. Cuba went from having a rural economy to a largely urbanized economy. It became increasingly defoliated as more land was planted with sugarcane, tobacco, and so on. This period was one of enormous upheaval, and the changes came on the very edge of a big empire-the United States-that was increasingly throwing its weight around the world. For all of those reasons, that juncture was crucial for Cuba’s history. To this day, things are playing out that were set in motion during the Spanish American War.
 * On what spurred her to set her novels in Cuba in “An interview with Cristina García” in Contemporary Literature (Summer 2007)


 * Memory is overrated. It is something that people think you can capture, but I think it is eternally elusive, subjective, and open to interpretation. That is part of its beauty, fascination, and frustration…
 * On the unreliability of memory in “An interview with Cristina García” in Contemporary Literature (Summer 2007)


 * Poetry has always been the ignition for everything. It’s what ignites my brain, lights the imaginative forces. If poetry didn’t exist, I’d be doing something else entirely. That’s how crucial it is to me. For pleasure, for work, to get started in the day—I read poetry. And it’s the last thing I read at night. It fuels my dreams.
 * On how much poetry means to her in “Language is the Way: An Interview with Cristina García” in Fiction Writers Review (2013 Jun 19)


 * None of my characters operate in a vacuum. You rarely see these tidy domestic dramas, mostly because of my own interest in a broader stage. I’m always interested in seeing how political events are shaking down within the individual and within the relationships between individuals, and also the kind of destruction this can cause in people’s lives and relationships…
 * On avoidance of having her characters live in a bubble in “Language is the Way: An Interview with Cristina García” in Fiction Writers Review (2013 Jun 19)