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" I think all writing is done through memory. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Done
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" I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England. "
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" The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters. "
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" That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all. "
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" I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it. "
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" I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me. "
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" Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. "
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" My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. "
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" I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. "
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