"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."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Society, People, Heart, Conformity

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"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."

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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 am a writer of fragments."

Writing

"My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth."

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"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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"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."

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"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."

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"When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words."

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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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"I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread."

Writing

"No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking."

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