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" 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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Money
Write
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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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" I am against the notion of style in itself. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I am a writer of fragments. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't have any style. "
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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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" No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. "
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" I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. "
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" You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that. "
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" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "
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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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" But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. "
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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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" 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, 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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" 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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" Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story. "
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