"I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Identity, Writer

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

Parenting

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

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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."

Famous

"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."

Nation

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

Fear

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

Writing

"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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"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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