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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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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" For me, words are just words, nothing else. "
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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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" Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. "
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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 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 all writing is done through memory. "
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" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread. "
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" I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. "
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" But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. "
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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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" When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader. "
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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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British
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" I don't have any style. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I am against the notion of style in itself. "
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" My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. "
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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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" 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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" I am a writer of fragments. "
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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 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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" 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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