"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."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Beginning, End, First, Interest

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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."

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"In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season."

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"I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book."

Reading

"Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story."

Reading

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

Identity

"I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost."

Inspirational

"Puns are a form of humor with words."

Humor

"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

"The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters."

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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 am against the notion of style in itself."

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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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