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
memories writing thinking
I think all writing is done through memory
stars book dark
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.
writing catholic bedtime
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.
cuban-cigars world leisure
Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.
mean writing biographies
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.
good-love lovers cigar
A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.
believe reading writing
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
writing play serious
Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.
writing thinking cities
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
writing mean pages
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.
thinking frightened
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread
mother father two
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.