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

-- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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“Characters simply come and find me. They sit down, I offer them a coffee. They tell me their story and then they almost always leave. When a character, after drinking some coffee and briefly telling her story, wants dinner and then a place to sleep and then breakfast and so on, for me the time has come to write the novel.”

Source : Source: wordswithoutborders.org
“Somewhere deep down we know that in the final analysis, we do decide things and that even our decisions to let someone else decide are really our decisions, however pusillanimous.”

Source : "On Not Leaving It to the Snake". Book by Harvey Cox, 1967.
“To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.”
“Marcia was incredibly organized, obsessively neat ... I mean she folded her underwear like origami.”

Source : Linda Barnes (2015). “Further Adventures of Carlotta Carlyle: Three Mystery Stories”, p.14, Open Road Media
“I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.”

Source : "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.
“Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.”
“I want to build a life with someone that's based on their dreams as well as my dreams. I think that the idea of finding another person to share with is the most fascinating, beautiful quest you could ever be on in life.”
“It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.”

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