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. — 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, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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
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 Image
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 Image
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
