90 Quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.

I first came out against Castro in June 1968, fifteen months after my book had been published, and you cannot imagine how quickly a void was created around me.

What I do believe is that there is always a relationship between writing and reading, a constant interplay between the writer on the one hand and the reader on the other.

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.

I don’t have any style.

I have one main reader, Miriam Gomez, my wife. She reads everything I write – I have not finished writing something and she is already reading it.