Quotes By Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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.

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

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

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

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

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana.

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.

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.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

I don't have any style.

I think all writing is done through memory.

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

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.

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 describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.

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.

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.