Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
More Quotes from Guillermo Cabrera Infante:
So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana.Guillermo Cabrera Infante
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that.
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.
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I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.
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I am against the notion of style in itself.
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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
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