"No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking."

Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Cuban Novelist

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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."

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"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."

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"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."

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

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"I am a writer of fragments."

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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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"I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it."

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"Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own."

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"I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense."

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"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."

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"The writer is the engineer of the human soul."

Joseph Stalin, Russian Leader

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"If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

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"The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter."

Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher

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"Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."

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