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

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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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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" Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. "

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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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" I don't have any style. "

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

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

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

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" I am a writer of fragments. "

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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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" There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. "

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" Puns are a form of humor with words. "

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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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" I think all writing is done through memory. "

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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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" 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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" 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. "

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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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" Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me. "

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" I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "

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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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" 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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" When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader. "

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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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" I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. "

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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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