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" Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Important
Me
Write
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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 have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "
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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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" When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader. "
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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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" 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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" I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book. "
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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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" 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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" I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost. "
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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. "
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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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Page
" My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. "
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Up
Poor
" I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic. "
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Never
True
Journalist
" 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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Money
Write
Wise
" 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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Me
Imagine
" 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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Live
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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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Relationship
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" I don't have any style. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Style
Any
" 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
" So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. "
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Havana
Even
Consider
" I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. "
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Only
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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 do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. "
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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 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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City
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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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You
Street
" 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 describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels. "
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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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My Life
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