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All Quotes by author - Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "

" A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader. "

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

" For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page. "

" For me, words are just words, nothing else. "

" I am against the notion of style in itself. "

" I am a writer of fragments. "

" I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. "

" I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity. "

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

" I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost. "

" I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. "

" I don't have any style. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "

" I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it. "

" I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think all writing is done through memory. "

" I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city. "

" I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself. "

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

" It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down. "

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

" I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips. "

" I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic. "

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