Cuban - Novelist | April 22, 1929 - February 21, 2005
I am against the notion of style in itself.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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I am a writer of fragments.
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I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
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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.
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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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I think all writing is done through memory.
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I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.
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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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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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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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