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" I am against the notion of style in itself. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I Am
Against
Am
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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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" 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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" 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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" But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. "
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" 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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" I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book. "
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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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" So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. "
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" Puns are a form of humor with words. "
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" For me, words are just words, nothing else. "
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Else
" No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. "
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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
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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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Everything
Reading
She
" 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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Conversation
You
Street
" I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips. "
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Boy
Fan
Great
" 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. "
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Money
Write
Wise
" I am a writer of fragments. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I Am
Am
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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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Journalism
Magazine
" 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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Censorship
Catholic
Know
" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "
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Literature
Writing
Serious
" 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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Difficult
More
Writer
" When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader. "
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Being
Enjoy
Much
" Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. "
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Me
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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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" 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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" I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. "
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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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" 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
" I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course. "
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I Am
British
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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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First
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