Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes

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• I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Thinking, Bedtime, Frightened

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• 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

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• 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

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• If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

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  Sleep, Monsters, Doe

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• Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Leisure, Cuban Cigars, World

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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

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  Powerful, Believe, Reading

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

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Play, Serious

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• A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.

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  Good Love, Lovers, Cigar

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• 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

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  Believe, Moving, Heart

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• I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Friendship, Dog, Home

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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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  Writing, Needs, Literature

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• I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Hispanic

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

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  Writing, Jigsaw Puzzles, Literature

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• I am a writer of fragments.

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  Fragments

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• I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Boys, Alaska, Avid

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• The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.

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  Character, Peculiar, Literature

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• I think all writing is done through memory

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  Memories, Writing, Thinking

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• 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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• 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.

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  Writing, Catholic, Literature

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• 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

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

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  Party, Parent, Literature

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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  Book, June, Firsts

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• 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.

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  Mother, Father, Two

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