Top 48 Quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.

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

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

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

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.

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

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

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.

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.

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