Quotes By Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

I think all writing is done through memory.

I don't have any style.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

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

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.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.

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.

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.

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.

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.

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.

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