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" I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" I am against the notion of style in itself. "

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" My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. "

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" I am a writer of fragments. "

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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 have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "

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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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" I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course. "

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

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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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" There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. "

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" Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. "

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" I think all writing is done through memory. "

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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 was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips. "

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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 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 don't have any style. "

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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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