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I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost

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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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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But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that
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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 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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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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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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I don't have any style.
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I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish
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I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels
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I think all writing is done through memory
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I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
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American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter
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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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Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title
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