"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

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"For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page."

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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."

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"I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me."

Politics, First, June, Months

"I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels."

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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, Writers

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

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"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."

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

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"But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that."

Mind, Writer

"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 was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book."

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"The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read."

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"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."

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"Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it."

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"Literature is the question minus the answer."

Roland Barthes, French Critic

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"Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony."

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"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."

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"I like a lot of Margaret Atwood, I like much of Alice Munro. Again, if you were to ask me about male writers, there's often a novel I admire, but not all of their works."

Ann Beattie, American Writer

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