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Guillermo Cabrera Infante quotes

Cuban Novelist April 22, 1929 – February 21, 2005

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I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write - I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it. 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. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infante quote: "My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I..."
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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 was created around me. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infante quote: "I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels."
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. 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 the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me. 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 the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infante quote: "I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great..."
I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infante quote: "I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic."
I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infante quote: "I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do..."
I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infante quote: "I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish."
I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infante quote: "But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true..."
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infante quote: "Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country,..."
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. Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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