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
thinking frightened
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread
writing mean pages
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.
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.
writing play serious
Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.
good-love lovers cigar
A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.
mean writing biographies
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.
cuban-cigars world leisure
Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.
writing catholic bedtime
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
important radio journalism
There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.
writing british
I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish
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
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
memories writing thinking
I think all writing is done through memory
voice silence fiction
Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.