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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
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 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