Guillermo Cabrera Infante quotes - page 2

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. (Guillermo Cabrera Infante)

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I am against the notion of style in itself.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. (Guillermo Cabrera Infante)

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I don't have any style.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I think all writing is done through memory.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. (Guillermo Cabrera Infante)

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.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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Photo: Oto Vega Ponce, CC BY-SA 3.0

Occupation: Cuban Novelist
Born: April 22, 1929
Died: February 21, 2005
Quotes count: 48

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