"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."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Nation, Country, England, Language

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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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"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."

Politics

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

Mind

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

Life

"I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship."

Censorship

"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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"I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course."

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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."

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"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."

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"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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