Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Cities

• 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

  Mean, Writing, Literature

• My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Mother, Father, Two

• It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Mean, Writing, Literature

• 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

  Writing, Catholic, Literature

• If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Stars, Book, Dark

• My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Party, Parent, Literature

• 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

  Games, Literature, Pages

• I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Believe, Moving, Heart

• For me, words are just words, nothing else

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Literature

• 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

  Reading, Writing, Wife

• 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

  Book, June, Firsts

• I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Inspiration, Believe, Order

• 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

  Character, Peculiar, Literature

• No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Jigsaw Puzzles, Literature

• 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

  Wise, Writing, Literature

• But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Mind, Doe

• I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Literature, Critics, Movie Critic

• 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

  Country, Writing, Choices

• 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

  Magazines, Literature, Journalism

• American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Serious, Literature

• I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Book, America, United States

• Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Literature, Translators, Publishers

• That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Character, Lasts

• I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Country, Thinking, Literature

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