"I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Home, Being, Man, Years

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"I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog."

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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."

Journalism

"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

"For me, words are just words, nothing else."

Nothing

"American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter."

Literature

"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 am against the notion of style in itself."

Style

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

Writing

"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."

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"I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer."

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