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" My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

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" 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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" The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

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" Puns are a form of humor with words. "

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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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" I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost. "

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

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" 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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" 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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" 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 have any style. "

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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. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

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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 am a writer of fragments. "

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

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" 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 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. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "

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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. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

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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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" 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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