Cuban - Novelist | April 22, 1929 - February 21, 2005
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.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.
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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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So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana.
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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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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 the only British writer who writes in Spanish.
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I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.
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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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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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But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.
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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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