Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infantewas a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, screenwriter, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín...
NationalityCuban
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 April 1929
CountryCuba
Guillermo Cabrera Infante quotes about
writing jigsaw-puzzles literature
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
believe inspiration order
I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost
For me, words are just words, nothing else
style notion
I am against the notion of style in itself
boys avid great-love
I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips
book calling novel
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels
reading stories ends
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story
struggle writing typewriters
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
writing british
I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish
country thinking england
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
writing london british
I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course
book calling united-states
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels
magazines journalism feels
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
havana fatherland
So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana