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 needs enjoy
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader
writing literature matter
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter
friendship dog home
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.
writing mind doe
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that
fragments
I am a writer of fragments.
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
book june fifteen
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
writing jigsaw-puzzles literature
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
book calling united-states
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels
havana fatherland
So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana
writing london british
I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course
translators publishers
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread
writing important titles
Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title
gentleman opiates rich
Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.