I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.
More Quotes from 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
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.
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
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
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
There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
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