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

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

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American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.

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But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.

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

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

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I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course.

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

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