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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, words are just words, nothing else.
- Even
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title.
- No Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
- Castro
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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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.
- Hispanic
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I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.
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- Nov 07, 2020