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I wrote for a weekly magazine and then edited a literary magazine, but I did not really feel comfortable with the profession of journalism itself. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

A song like 'Osito Carpintero' came straight from the Pedro Infante films, movies that all the kids in Mexico watched. — Thalia

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

For me, words are just words, nothing else. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

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

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I am a writer of fragments. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I toyed with the idea of playing Ravel's 'Pavane pour une infante defunte' but I couldn't remember if it's a tune or Latin prescription for piles. — Les Dawson

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Puns are a form of humor with words. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play. — Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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