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" I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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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 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 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 am a writer of fragments. "

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" I don't have any style. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread. "

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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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" Puns are a form of humor with words. "

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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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" 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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" I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book. "

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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 was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic. "

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" For me, words are just words, nothing else. "

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

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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 do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost. "

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" I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "

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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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