Cuban - Novelist | April 22, 1929 - February 21, 2005
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
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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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When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.
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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 have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.
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For me, words are just words, nothing else.
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Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title.
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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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My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
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I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me.
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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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