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I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Age: 75 †
Born: 1929
Born: April 22
Died: 2005
Died: February 21
Essayist
Journalist
Linguist
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
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Guillermo Cain
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Spanish
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Literature

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I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book
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A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.
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If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?
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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 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 assiduously avoided calling my books novels
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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.
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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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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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Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
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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 was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
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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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My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
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Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title
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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 live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course
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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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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
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