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
writing jigsaw-puzzles literature
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
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
writing london british
I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course
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
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
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.
writing important titles
Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title
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
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.
writing needs enjoy
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader
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