Chronicler Quote by Guillermo Cabrera Infante Download Open image “So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana” — Guillermo Cabrera Infante ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chronicler Chronicler Fatherland Chronicler Havana Consider Chronicler Fatherland Fatherland Chronicler Havana
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Copy Share Image
My view of myself doesn't change. I know who I am. I'm Cuban American; both my parents are Cuban - one was a little… — Gina Torres Copy Share Image
“No one could have imagined a place like Havana, Cuba. It is absurdly contradictory, always arguing with itself over whether it is audacious or… — Ed Kirwan Copy Share Image
My mother told me many stories about her childhood in Cuba. Living there had a profound impact on her and how she regards herself. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
There is my life in Cuba and my life in America, the old life and the new life, and almost nothing about them is… — Aroldis Chapman Copy Share Image
I'm actually Cuban-born, born in 1956, the year Fidel Castro came into power, and my father moved my family to Miami a few years… — Steven Bauer Copy Share Image
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. — James Frey Copy Share Image
Younger Cuban Americans who have decided to go to the island always come back telling me "that isn't the country my grandparents have told… — Mark Falcoff Copy Share Image
Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. — James Frey 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
Before a clock was in the tower, Or e'er a watch was worn; I knew of night the passing hour, And prophesied the morn;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would like to be the chronicler of something that I think is going down the drain very swiftly, and that is small-town, middle-class… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“how thin the line is between the truth and a compelling lie. Between history and an entertaining story.” Chronicler gave his words a minute… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“What the hell is that supposed to mean?" Chronicler snapped. "You're just spouting nonsense now." "I'm spouting too much sense for you to understand,"… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“I am lost without my Boswell. [Sherlock Holmes on Dr. Watson.] ” — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I see things going on before my eyes and I photograph them as they are, without trying to change them. I don't warn people… — Martin Parr Copy Share Image
“There was once a point to this story, but it has temporarily escaped the chronicler’s mind.” — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
A journalist is basically a chronicler, not an interpreter of events. Where else in society do you have the license to eavesdrop on so… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
I believe it, Chronicler found himself thinking. Before it was just a story, but now I can believe it. This is the face of… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
“But I'm collecting the story of his life. The real story.' Chronicler made a helpless gesture. 'Without the dark parts it's just some silly… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image