I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
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I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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.
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I think all writing is done through memory.
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American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.
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I am against the notion of style in itself.
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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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