Quotes by '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...

good-love lovers cigar

A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.

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.

important radio journalism

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

humor form pun

Puns are a form of humor with words.

hispanic

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

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

havana fatherland

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana

translators publishers

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

gentleman opiates rich

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.