Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• 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.

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  Mean, Writing, Literature

• Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

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  Writing, Play, Serious

• 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

• I think all writing is done through memory

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Memories, Writing, Thinking

• 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

  Believe, Character, Writing

• 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

• 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

• I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, London, British

• 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 am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Literature, British

• 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

• 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

• 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

  Struggle, Writing, Typewriters

• When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Needs, Literature

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

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Mind, Doe

• 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

  Powerful, Believe, Reading

• American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Serious, Literature

• 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

  Writing, Thinking, Literature

• Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Important, Literature

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