Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.”

“I am a writer of fragments.”

“I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.”

“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.”

“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.”

“For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.”

“Puns are a form of humor with words.”

“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.”

“I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.”

“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.”