"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."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Money, Writer

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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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"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."

Beginning

"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

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

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"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."

Choice

"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."

Society

"I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer."

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"I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book."

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"When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader."

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"Puns are a form of humor with words."

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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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