"A very wise author once said that a……" — 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 publish just for the reader"
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53 Quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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Puns are a form of humor with words.
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If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?
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I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.
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That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters…
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When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader
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I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book
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What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the…
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I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer…
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I think all writing is done through memory
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I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread
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I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little…
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I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot…
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I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than…
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first…
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Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we…
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who…
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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
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The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
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