"I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

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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."

Beginning

"I think all writing is done through memory."

Memory

"No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking."

Writing

"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."

Choice

"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."

Identity

"I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity."

Society

"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."

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"I am a writer of fragments."

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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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"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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