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
gentleman opiates rich
Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.
believe character writing
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
translators publishers
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread
character lasts firsts
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.
hispanic
I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.
sleep monsters doe
If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?
country writing choices
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.
games literature pages
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.
friendship dog home
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.
party parent literature
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
writing needs enjoy
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader
book able
I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book
moving believe heart
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
writing thinking ifs
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself