Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I don't have any style.”