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I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.

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I don't have any style.

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I am against the notion of style in itself.

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I am a writer of fragments.

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I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.

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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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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.

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I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

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I think all writing is done through memory.

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

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Biography

Nationality: Cuban

Type: Novelist

Born: April 22nd, 1929

Died: February 21st, 2005

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