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
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 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
memories writing thinking
I think all writing is done through memory
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.
thinking frightened
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread
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