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" When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Being
Enjoy
Much
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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 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
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" I think all writing is done through memory. "
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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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" There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. "
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Important
My Life
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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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" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "
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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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Cuba
City
Havana
" I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course. "
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I Am
British
London
" 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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First
Write
Words
" 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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Literature
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Me
" Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. "
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Rush
" But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. "
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Does
True
" 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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Beginning
First
Interest
" 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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Stars
Book
Dark
" 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
" 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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Going
Live
Think
" 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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Difficult
More
Writer
" I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
British
Only
I Am
" I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels. "
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
United States
Calling
Spain
" 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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Sense
Work
Me
" Puns are a form of humor with words. "
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Humor
Form
Puns
" 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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See
Choice
Country
" 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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Everything
Reading
She
" I don't have any style. "
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Style
Any
" I am a writer of fragments. "
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I Am
Am
Fragments
" Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. "
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Me
Write
" I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips. "
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Boy
Fan
Great
" I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost. "
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Work
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" I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread. "
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I Think
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Very