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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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Feel
Journalism
Magazine
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" I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. "
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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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Father
God
" 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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First
Interest
" I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread. "
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Think
Very
" Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. "
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Me
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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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Stars
Book
Dark
" I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips. "
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Boy
Fan
Great
" 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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Believe
Words
Mouth
" No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. "
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Very
Jigsaw
Like
" I think all writing is done through memory. "
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Done
Memory
Think
" 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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Conversation
You
Street
" I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I Am
British
London
" 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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Difficult
More
Writer
" Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. "
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Where
Publishers
Rush
" I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Hispanic
Consider
Myself
" I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Calling
Novels
Avoided
" I don't have any style. "
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Style
Any
" 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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Censorship
Catholic
Know
" I am a writer of fragments. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I Am
Am
Fragments
" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Literature
Writing
Serious
" 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
" 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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Book
Me
Imagine
" When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader. "
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Being
Enjoy
Much
" Puns are a form of humor with words. "
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Humor
Form
Puns
" But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Reader
Does
True
" 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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Beginning
Story
See
" 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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Words
Pen
Page
" I am against the notion of style in itself. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I Am
Against
Am
" 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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First
Write
Words
" I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book. "
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Able
Before
Read