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Guillermo Cabrera Infante Biography

Guillermo Cabrera Infante (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡiˈʎermo kaˈβɾeɾa imˈfante]; Gibara, 22 April 1929 – 21 February 2005) was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, screenwriter, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín.

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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

America, Book, Books, Publishers, United, United States

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

Doe, Mind, Reader, True, Writing

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.

Finished, Reader, Reading, Wife, Writing

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself

Literature, Thinking, Write, Writer, Writers, Writing

For me, words are just words, nothing else

Literature, Nothing, Words

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

Literature, Publishers, Rush, Translators, Tread, Writers

I am against the notion of style in itself

Against, Notion, Style

I don't have any style.

Style

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

Jigsaw, Jigsaw Puzzles, Linear, Literature, Puzzle, Writing

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

Believe, Character, Idea, Mouth, Writing

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

Cities, City, Fascinating, Thinking, Times, Writing

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

Author, Literature, Money, Said, Wise, Writing

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

Essential, Important, Titles, Write, Writing

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

Gentleman, Opiate, Opiates, Rich, Tobacco

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

Beginning, Like, Literature, Reading, Stories, Though

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.

Catholic, Censorship, Cervantes, Literature, Writing, Wrote

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.

Blank, Literature, Mean, Page, Words, Writing

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.

Book, Dark, Page, Pages, Stars

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana

Chronicler, Fatherland, Havana

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.

Cigarettes, Cuban Cigars, Eternity, Leisure, World

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