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" I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Calling
Novels
Avoided
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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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" I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. "
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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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" When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader. "
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" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "
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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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" For me, words are just words, nothing else. "
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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 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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" 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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" 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 am a writer of fragments. "
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" I think all writing is done through memory. "
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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 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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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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" So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. "
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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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" 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 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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