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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.

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American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.

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I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

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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.

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So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana.

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

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I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

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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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A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

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But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.

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Biography

Nationality: Cuban

Type: Novelist

Born: April 22nd, 1929

Died: February 21st, 2005

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