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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.
I think all writing is done through memory.
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.
I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book.
I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.
I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.
If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.
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.
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
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.
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
Puns are a form of humor with words.
So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana.
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.
The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.
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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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BirthDate
22 April, 1929
DeathDate
21 February, 2005
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Cuba
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