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" I don't have any style. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Style
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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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" For me, words are just words, nothing else. "
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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 live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course. "
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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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" 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 was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book. "
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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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" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "
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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 am a writer of fragments. "
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" I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. "
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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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City
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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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" 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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" I am against the notion of style in itself. "
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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 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 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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" 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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" 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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