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Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Birthday: April 22, 1929
Deathday: February 21, 2005
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Type: Novelist
National: Cuban

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A very wise author once said that a writer writes...

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter....

But I do not have the reader in mind when...

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and...

For me, words are just words, nothing else....

I am a writer of fragments....

I am against the notion of style in itself....

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish....

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite,...

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in...

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have...

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer....

I don't have any style....

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I...

I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen...

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels....

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She...

I know that many writers have had to write under...

I left my country because I was forced to, and...

I live in London and I am a British subject,...

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of...

I think all writing is done through memory....

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba...

I think that like all writers - and if any...

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

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

I was an avid radio fan when I was a...

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie...

I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a...

If you look closely, there is no book more visual...

It means that no matter what you write, be it...

Many of my books have begun with the title, because...

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she...

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and...

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a...

Puns are a form of humor with words....

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my...

That is what I define as a novel: something that...

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It...

There were influences in my life that were more important...

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me....

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading,...

Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to...

What I do believe is that there is always a...

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what...

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank...

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

You are just in the middle of a struggle with...

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