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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. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#beginning #communism #convent #converted #during

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#absolutely not #jigsaw #jigsaw puzzle #like #linear

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#even #fatherland #havana #i #i do

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. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#characters #define #end #first #i

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#characters #difficult #even #his #more

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#comic strips #important #influences #journalism #life

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#beginning #end #even #images #like

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. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#cannot #choice #country #exile #exiled

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#enjoy #i #i write #much #myself

They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#i #paying #soon #started #success