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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. "

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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" When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader. "

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" I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book. "

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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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" 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 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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" 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 am against the notion of style in itself. "

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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 do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. "

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" My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" 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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" 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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" But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. "

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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 am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" Puns are a form of humor with words. "

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" Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" 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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