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I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.

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I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.

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For me, words are just words, nothing else.

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

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

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

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I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me.

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My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.

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Biography

Nationality: Cuban

Type: Novelist

Born: April 22nd, 1929

Died: February 21st, 2005

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