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Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Cuban Novelist
Born: Apr 22, 1929
Died: Feb 21, 2005
Am Me Myself Think Words Writing
Related authors: Charles Dickens Ernest Hemingway Gustave Flaubert James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Paulo Coelho Walter Scott
Puns are a form of humor with words. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Words Humor Puns Form
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Books Calling Avoided Novels
I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Myself Consider Writer Hispanic
I think all writing is done through memory. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Memory Writing Think Through Done
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Work Me Progress Sense Books No Sense Naming Because Makes Begun Title Many
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
Myself Wise Money Publish Once Write Writer Writes Himself Reader Said Very Author Just Then
I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Think Everybody Rush Writers Very Frightened Where Tread
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
Magazine Weekly Journalism Feel Wrote Comfortable Edited Itself Did Literary Then Really Profession
I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Book Before Able Read Movie
Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
You Reading Beginning Though Telling See Like Because End Movie Story Even Images Watching
There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Life My Life Important Strips More Journalism Comic Comic Strips Were Than Influences Radio
I don't have any style. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Style Any
I am a writer of fragments. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Fragments Writer Am
I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Insist Elsewhere Books States Calling Spain Them Works Describe Novels United United States Publishers
That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
First Beginning Define Plot Characters Something End Middle Sustain Interest Sentence Novel Last
I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Work Lost Believe Otherwise Must Inspiration Am Order Title
It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
You Conversation Matter Down Detective Write Soon Becomes Autobiography Fiction Means Novel Street Biography
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
Myself Think All Writers Write Writer Writers He Primarily Like Any Then
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 Wife Finished Reading Everything Something Write Main She Reader Reads
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Myself Needs Enjoy Write Written Reader Being Much Really
For me, words are just words, nothing else. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Me Words Nothing Else Just
Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Me Important Only Write Without Essential Cannot Title Titles
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Parents Party Extremely Cuban Were Up Grew Poor Communist Communist Party Founders
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. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Me You Book First Months Out Castro Void Had Around How Came Been Quickly June After Cannot Against Fifteen Created Published Imagine
My mother had been educated at a convent, and she had been converted to communism by my father during Stalin's most rampant period, at the beginning of the 1930s. So she had two gods, God in heaven and god on earth. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
God Communism Mother Father Beginning Rampant Earth Had Most Period She Educated Been Gods Heaven Convent Converted Stalin Two

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