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" There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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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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" But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. "
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" I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book. "
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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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" 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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" 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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