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Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me Picture Quote #1

No, absolutely not, writing doesn’t have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit Picture Quote #1

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio Picture Quote #1

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me (Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes) No, absolutely not, writing doesn’t have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking (Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes) 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 (Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes) Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit (Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes) There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio (Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes) Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story (Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes) 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 (Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes) 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 (Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes) 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 (Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes)

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