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

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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."

Writing

"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."

Parenting

"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 am against the notion of style in itself."

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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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"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 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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