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I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

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No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

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What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.

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When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

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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.

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It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

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Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.

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I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

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I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

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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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Biography

Nationality: Cuban

Type: Novelist

Born: April 22nd, 1929

Died: February 21st, 2005

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