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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

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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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" 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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" 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 am against the notion of style in itself. "

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

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

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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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" 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. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" 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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" 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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" 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

" I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread. "

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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. "

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 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

" I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" I don't have any style. "

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" I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" I am a writer of fragments. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" 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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" There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. "

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" Puns are a form of humor with words. "

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