Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes

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• I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread

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  Thinking, Bedtime, Frightened

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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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  Mean, Writing, Literature

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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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  Writing, Thinking, Cities

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• If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

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  Sleep, Monsters, Doe

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• Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.

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  Leisure, Cuban Cigars, World

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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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  Powerful, Believe, Reading

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• Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

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  Writing, Play, Serious

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• A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.

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  Good Love, Lovers, Cigar

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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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  Believe, Moving, Heart

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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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  Friendship, Dog, Home

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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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  Writing, Jigsaw Puzzles, Literature

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• I am a writer of fragments.

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  Fragments

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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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  Boys, Alaska, Avid

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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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  Character, Peculiar, Literature

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• I think all writing is done through memory

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  Memories, Writing, Thinking

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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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  Writing, Needs, Literature

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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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  Country, Thinking, Literature

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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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  Writing, Catholic, Literature

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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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  Mean, Writing, Literature

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• I don't have any style.

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  Style

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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, Radio, Journalism

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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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  Writing, Mind, Doe

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• American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

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  Writing, Serious, Literature

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• Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread

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  Literature, Translators, Publishers

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• Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

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  Writing, Important, Literature

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