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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
Sense
Work
Me
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" My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. "
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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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" 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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" 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 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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" 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 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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" I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "
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Calling
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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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People
" 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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Pen
Page
" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "
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Literature
Writing
Serious
" I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic. "
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Never
True
Journalist
" But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. "
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Reader
Does
True
" 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
" 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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
See
Choice
Country
" 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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Money
Write
Wise
" I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
United States
Calling
Spain
" 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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Literature
Game
Me
" 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
" 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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Story
Years
More
" 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
" 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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Relationship
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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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Fan
Great
" Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. "
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Publishers
Rush
" I am a writer of fragments. "
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I Am
Am
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" I am against the notion of style in itself. "
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I Am
Against
Am
" So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. "
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Even
Consider
" I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book. "
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Able
Before
Read
" 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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Cuba
City
Havana