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Guillermo Cabrera Infante quotes about writing

Cuban Novelist April 22, 1929 – February 21, 2005

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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 and the reader on the other. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infante quote: "I think all writing is done through memory."
I think all writing is done through memory. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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
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 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
Guillermo Cabrera Infante quote: "American literature had always considered writing a very..."
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words. Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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