Top 48 Quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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 wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself.