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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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Believe
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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" I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "
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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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" Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. "
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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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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 never a true journalist, I was a movie critic. "
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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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Enjoy
Much
" But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. "
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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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" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "
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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 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 consider myself a Hispanic writer. "
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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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" 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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" 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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