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" So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Havana
Even
Consider
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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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" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "
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" I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I am against the notion of style in itself. "
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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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Heaven
Father
God
" I am a writer of fragments. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I Am
Am
Fragments
" 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
" Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Important
Me
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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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Everything
Reading
She
" There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Important
My Life
Life
" 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
" Puns are a form of humor with words. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Humor
Form
Puns
" 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
" 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
" My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Communist
Up
Poor
" I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I Am
Work
Lost
" I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Hispanic
Consider
Myself
" 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
Difficult
More
Writer
" 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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Live
Night
People
" 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
Write
Words
" 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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Feel
Journalism
Magazine
" When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader. "
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Being
Enjoy
Much
" 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
Words
Mouth
" 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
" 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