Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Novelist

1929-04-22

Quotes by 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.

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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