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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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Book
Me
Imagine
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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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. "
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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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Literature
Game
Me
" I think all writing is done through memory. "
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Memory
Think
" 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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See
" 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
" Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Important
Me
Write
" 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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Words
Pen
Page
" 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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Everything
Reading
She
" I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I Am
British
London
" I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I Think
Think
Very
" 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
Journalism
Magazine
" But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. "
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Does
True
" 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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Catholic
Know
" 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 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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Writer
Write
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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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First
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Words
" 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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Cuba
City
Havana
" I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. "
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Consider
Myself
" I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "
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Calling
Novels
Avoided
" I am against the notion of style in itself. "
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I Am
Against
Am