90 Quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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.

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

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 believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity

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

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

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