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" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Literature
Writing
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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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" I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips. "
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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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" My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. "
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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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" I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself. "
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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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" 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. "
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" The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters. "
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" I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "
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" I don't have any style. "
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Any
" I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread. "
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" I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost. "
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Work
Lost
" I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog. "
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More
" So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. "
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Havana
Even
Consider
" 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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Cuba
City
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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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Book
Dark
" There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. "
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My Life
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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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God
" I am a writer of fragments. "
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" I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England. "
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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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" 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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