Quotes By Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

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.

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.

I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book.

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title.

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

I think all writing is done through memory.

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.

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.

For me, words are just words, nothing else.