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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.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Age: 75 †
Born: 1929
Born: April 22
Died: 2005
Died: February 21
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I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
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Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title
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If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?
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There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.
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When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.
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What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other
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My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.
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I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course
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