Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

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

I am a writer of fragments.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

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

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

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I am against the notion of style in itself

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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