Top 48 Quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title.

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.

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

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.

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