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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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Beginning
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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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" 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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" When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader. "
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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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" I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. "
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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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" No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. "
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" I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic. "
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" I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book. "
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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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" But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. "
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" I am a writer of fragments. "
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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 was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips. "
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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 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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" 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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" 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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" I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread. "
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" I am against the notion of style in itself. "
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Against
Am
" 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
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Calling
Spain
" I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course. "
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" 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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" 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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" My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. "
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" Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. "
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" Puns are a form of humor with words. "
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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. "
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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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