"Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Work, Progress, Books, Sense

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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 live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course."

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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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"You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that."

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