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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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Cuba
City
Havana
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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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" For me, words are just words, nothing else. "
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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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" Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. "
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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 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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" 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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" 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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" I don't have any style. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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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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" 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
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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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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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 was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic. "
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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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Great
" 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
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" I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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" I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Live
Night
People
" 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
" 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
" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "
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Literature
Writing
Serious
" No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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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
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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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Me
" I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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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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Book
Me
Imagine
" 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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Mouth
" Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. "
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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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