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" I am a writer of fragments. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I Am
Am
Fragments
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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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" 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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" 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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Night
People
" I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course. "
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British
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" I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic. "
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Never
True
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" I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. "
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Consider
Myself
" I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels. "
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Calling
Spain
" 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
Havana
" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "
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Literature
Writing
Serious
" 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
" 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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Stars
Book
Dark
" I don't have any style. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Style
Any
" 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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Writer
Write
Like
" 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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Reading
Relationship
Writing
" Puns are a form of humor with words. "
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Humor
Form
Puns
" 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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Beginning
First
Interest
" 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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Believe
Words
Mouth
" 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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Going
Live
Think
" 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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Everything
Reading
She
" I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. "
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British
Only
I Am
" For me, words are just words, nothing else. "
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Me
Words
Else
" When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader. "
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Being
Enjoy
Much
" 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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You
Street
" 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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See
" 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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Work
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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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Very
Jigsaw
Like
" I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "
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Calling
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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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See
Choice
Country
" 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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Me
Imagine