But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages,… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share
I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share
Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share
For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share
The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share
A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share
I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share
