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
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.
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
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.
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