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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
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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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" 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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" I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. "
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" I am against the notion of style in itself. "
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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 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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" 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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" 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 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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" I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread. "
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" I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "
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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 was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic. "
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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 an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips. "
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" I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. "
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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 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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" Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. "
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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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" For me, words are just words, nothing else. "
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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 don't have any style. "
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" So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. "
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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 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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" 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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" There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. "
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