"I think all writing is done through memory."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Memory, Writing

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"I think all writing is done through memory."

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"My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor."

Parenting

"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

"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."

Famous

"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."

Nation

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

Reading

"Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title."

Writing

"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."

Literature

"I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer."

Identity

"Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread."

Fear

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

Work