Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Guillermo Cabrera Infante quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased novelist born on Apr 22, 1929). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 48 we have for him.
“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.”
“I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.”
“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.”
“I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.”
“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.”
“But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.”
“I think all writing is done through memory.”
“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.”
“For me, words are just words, nothing else.”
“I am against the notion of style in itself.”
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