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" No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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" I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread. "
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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 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 live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Heaven
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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 am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. "
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" Puns are a form of humor with words. "
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Humor
Form
Puns
" 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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Fan
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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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
United States
Calling
Spain
" 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 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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Going
Live
Think
" 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
" I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Able
Before
Read
" 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 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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Believe
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Mouth
" I am against the notion of style in itself. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I Am
Against
Am
" 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 think all writing is done through memory. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Done
Memory
Think
" But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Reader
Does
True
" I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "
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Calling
Novels
Avoided
" 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
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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
First
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Words
" I am a writer of fragments. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I Am
Am
Fragments
" For me, words are just words, nothing else. "
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Me
Words
Else
" My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Communist
Up
Poor
" I don't have any style. "
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Style
Any
" 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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Reading
Relationship
Writing