Top 48 Quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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 am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

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

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.

For me, words are just words, nothing else.

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.

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

I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

I think all writing is done through memory.

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course.