But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that — 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
I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course — 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
Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I… — 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
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
When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that… — 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
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
Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with… — 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… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in… — 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
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play. — 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
