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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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Everything
Reading
She
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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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" 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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" 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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" Puns are a form of humor with words. "
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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 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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" 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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" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "
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" Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. "
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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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" Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. "
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" I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "
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" I am a writer of fragments. "
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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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" 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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Stars
Book
Dark
" I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost. "
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I Am
Work
Lost
" I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I Am
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London
" There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. "
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Important
My Life
Life
" 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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Going
Live
Think
" I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Writer
Write
Like
" But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. "
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Does
True
" I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. "
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British
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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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" 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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Street
" 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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" 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 was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Write
Words