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I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Age: 75 †
Born: 1929
Born: April 22
Died: 2005
Died: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
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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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Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.
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A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader
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I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels
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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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American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter
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Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
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I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
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I don't have any style.
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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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There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.
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My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
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I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
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It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.
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But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that
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I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips
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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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I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish
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Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title
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