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

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

Writing, Writers

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"Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little effort is expended on reading them: and the good fortune that attends the obscure is that the reader toils at them and ascribes to them the pleasure he has in fact gained from his own zeal."

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"I'd be somewhat of a lousy writer if I didn't know what to say."

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"Anyone who claims to be good at lying is obviously bad at lying. Thus - as a writer myself - I cannot comment on whether or not writers are exceptionally good liars, because whatever I said would actually mean its complete opposite."

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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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"My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor."

Parenting

"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."

Money

"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

"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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"I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me."

Creativity

"Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title."

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

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"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