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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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Live
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" I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. "
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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 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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" I am a writer of fragments. "
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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 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 am against the notion of style in itself. "
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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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" 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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" 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 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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