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
wise writing said
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
book june fifteen
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
humor form pun
Puns are a form of humor with words.
writing mind doe
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that
writing literature matter
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter
important radio journalism
There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.
book progress titles
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
critics movie-critic journalist
I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
character peculiar difficult
The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
reading writing wife
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.
style
I don't have any style.
fragments
I am a writer of fragments.
writing important titles
Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title
voice silence fiction
Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.