Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Important, Literature

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

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Needs, Literature

• I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Literature, British

• 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

• 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

• Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Reading, Stories, 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

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