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

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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" I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. "

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" So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. "

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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. "

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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 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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" 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 live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course. "

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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 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 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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" For me, words are just words, nothing else. "

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" I am a writer of fragments. "

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" I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book. "

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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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" 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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" 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 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" 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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