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.
More Quotes from Guillermo Cabrera Infante:
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.Guillermo Cabrera Infante
If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.
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I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
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I am against the notion of style in itself.
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For me, words are just words, nothing else.
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American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.
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