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Writer Quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
- I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.
- 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…
- 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…
- I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish
- But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that
- I am a writer of fragments.
- The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
- Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see myself as an exiled writer.
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