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" I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I Am
Work
Lost
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" My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. "
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" I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "
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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, 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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" 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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" 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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" I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread. "
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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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" 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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Wise
" No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. "
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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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" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "
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Writing
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" 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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More
Writer
" I am a writer of fragments. "
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Am
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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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Heaven
Father
God
" Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. "
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" I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic. "
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True
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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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" 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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Mouth
" 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 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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Feel
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" I think all writing is done through memory. "
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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 was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips. "
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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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" Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. "
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" I am against the notion of style in itself. "
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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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" Puns are a form of humor with words. "
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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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