Quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

About Guillermo Cabrera Infante:

Guillermo Cabrera Infante was a Cuban novelist, essayist, translator, screenwriter, and critic; in the 1950s he used the pseudonym G. Caín.
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[]no hay dos miradas a una mujer desnuda iguales, no hay dos desnudeces exactas, como no existe las misma ave a cazar, aunque haya sido cazada antes, escapada y vuelta a cazar en el mismo sitio, el momento las hace diferentes.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I read the Odyssey because it was the story of a man who returned home after being absent for more than twenty years and was recognized only by his dog.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Puns are a form of humor with words.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

For me, literature is a complex game, both mental and concrete, which is acted out in a physical manner on the page.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter.

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 think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I was able to read a movie before I was able to read a book.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I don't have any style.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I am a writer of fragments.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Author Bio

  • NameGuillermo Cabrera Infante
  • DescriptionCuban writer
  • BornApril 22, 1929
  • DiedFebruary 21, 2005
  • CountryUnited Kingdom; Cuba
  • ProfessionLinguist; Screenwriter; Author; Translator; Essayist
  • AwardsMiguel De Cervantes Prize