Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title.
More Quotes from 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 was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.
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
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
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
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