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" For me, words are just words, nothing else. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Me
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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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" 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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" I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "
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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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" Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. "
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" I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. "
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" 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. "
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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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" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "
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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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" My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. "
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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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" So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader. "
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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 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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" 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. "
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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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