90 Quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title

Dialogue in fiction is always written to be read in silence. The page is the limit. Dialogue on stage and on the screen is meant to be spoken. The voice is the limit.

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

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

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

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 think all writing is done through memory

Cigars must be smoked one at a time, peaceably, with all the leisure in the world. Cigarettes are of the instant, Cigars are for eternity.

A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.