Top 48 Quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.

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

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

I am against the notion of style in itself.

I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book.

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.