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" I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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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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" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "

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" I think all writing is done through memory. "

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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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" 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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" I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic. "

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" I am against the notion of style in itself. "

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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 have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "

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" Puns are a form of humor with words. "

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" I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. "

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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. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" I don't have any style. "

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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 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 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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" Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. "

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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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" 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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" When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader. "

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" I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread. "

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