Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes

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• Puns are a form of humor with words.
• If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?
• I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.
• That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain…
• When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader
• I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book
• What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand…
• I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for…
• I think all writing is done through memory
• I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread
• I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between…
• I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void…
• 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…
• So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana
• I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself
• I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels
• I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course
• I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live…
• I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish
• You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing…

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