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" I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I Think
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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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" 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 don't have any style. "
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" Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. "
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" 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 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 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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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 think all writing is done through memory. "
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" For me, words are just words, nothing else. "
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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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" 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 am against the notion of style in itself. "
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" Puns are a form of humor with words. "
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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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" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "
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