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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. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Reading
Relationship
Writing
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" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "
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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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" 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 do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. "
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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 think all writing is done through memory. "
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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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" My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. "
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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 think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread. "
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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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First
Interest
" 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
" 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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Write
Words
" 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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Cuba
City
Havana
" 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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Choice
Country
" 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 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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United States
Calling
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" For me, words are just words, nothing else. "
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Else
" I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. "
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Only
I Am
" 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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Story
See
" 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 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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Night
People
" 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 am against the notion of style in itself. "
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Against
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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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" But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. "
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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. "
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" I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "
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Novels
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" Puns are a form of humor with words. "
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