Guillermo C. Infante Quotes

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

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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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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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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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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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I think all writing is done through memory.

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I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

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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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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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American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.

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My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

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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 first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me.

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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.

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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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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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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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Puns are a form of humor with words.

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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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I am against the notion of style in itself.

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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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There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

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I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

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