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" 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
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" I am a writer of fragments. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I Am
Am
Fragments
" 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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Live
Night
People
" 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 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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Believe
Words
Mouth
" Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Where
Publishers
Rush
" I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I Am
Work
Lost
" I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Hispanic
Consider
Myself
" I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
United States
Calling
Spain
" I think all writing is done through memory. "
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Done
Memory
Think
" Puns are a form of humor with words. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Humor
Form
Puns
" Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Important
Me
Write
" 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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Money
Write
Wise
" There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Important
My Life
Life
" I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Calling
Novels
Avoided
" 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
" I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Cuba
City
Havana
" 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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Story
Years
More
" 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
Censorship
Catholic
Know
" I don't have any style. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Style
Any
" My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Communist
Up
Poor
" 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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Reading
Relationship
Writing
" 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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
First
Write
Words
" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Literature
Writing
Serious
" 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 was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Able
Before
Read
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Beginning
First
Interest
" 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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Feel
Journalism
Magazine
" 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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Conversation
You
Street