"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."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

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

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

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