Top 48 Quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.

I don't have any style.

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.

I am a writer of fragments.

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.

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.

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.