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

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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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. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" 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

" 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

" 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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" I don't have any style. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" 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. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

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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 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. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" For me, words are just words, nothing else. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" Puns are a form of humor with words. "

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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. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. "

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" I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" I am a writer of fragments. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" 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. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" 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

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

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" 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

" Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story. "

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. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. "

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

" 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