90 Quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

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

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

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

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.

My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin’s most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth.

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

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.

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