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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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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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Puns are a form of humor with words.

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I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

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

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I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

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I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.

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

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

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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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Biography

Nationality: Cuban

Type: Novelist

Born: April 22nd, 1929

Died: February 21st, 2005

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