"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."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Reading, Writer, Writing

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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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