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

Famous, Book, Words

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Parents, Poor, Party

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Home, After, Read

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

Everybody, Writers, Frightened

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

Struggle, Forget, Words

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

Money, Wise, Said

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writing, Serious, American

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

Mind, True, Write

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

Game, Both, Literature

For me, words are just words, nothing else.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Nothing, Words, Else

I am a writer of fragments.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writer, Fragments

I am against the notion of style in itself.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Against, Style, Notion

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writer, British, Spanish

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

Books, United, Works

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

Work, Lost, Order

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writer, Consider, Hispanic

I don't have any style.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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 have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Books, Calling, Novels

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Wife, Writing, Everything

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

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.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Live, Country, Lose

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

Live, Write, London

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Biography

Nationality: Cuban

Born: April 22, 1929

Died: February 21, 2005

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