Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes

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

Great, Boy, Radio

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

True, Movie, Critic

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

Journalism, Profession, Magazine

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Work, Sense, Makes

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

Writing, Puzzle, Jigsaw

Puns are a form of humor with words.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Humor, Words, Puns

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Consider, Fatherland, Havana

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Life, Important, Journalism

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

Important, Cannot, Write

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

End, Beginning, Story

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Country, Cannot, Choice

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

Enjoy, Write, Needs

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

Nothing, Words, Write

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

Fear, Writers, Rush

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

Society, Live, Heart

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.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Character, Words, Put

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

Book, After, Cannot

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.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Good, Write, Censorship

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Down, Matter, Write

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

God, Mother, Father

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

End, Last, Beginning

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Between, Difficult, Writer

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

Writing, Between, Reading

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Biography

Nationality: Cuban

Born: April 22, 1929

Died: February 21, 2005

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