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 C. Infante Quote

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that.
- Guillermo C. Infante Quote

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

For me, words are just words, nothing else.
- Guillermo C. Infante Quote

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish.
- Guillermo C. Infante Quote

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity.
- Guillermo C. Infante Quote

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
- Guillermo C. Infante Quote

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost.
- Guillermo C. Infante Quote

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me.
- Guillermo C. Infante Quote

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.
- Guillermo C. Infante Quote

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 C. Infante Quote

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 C. Infante Quote

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 C. Infante Quote

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 C. Infante Quote

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 C. Infante Quote

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.
- Guillermo C. Infante Quote

I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic.
- Guillermo C. Infante Quote

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.
- Guillermo C. Infante Quote

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 C. Infante Quote

It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.
- Guillermo C. Infante Quote

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 C. Infante Quote

My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor.
- Guillermo C. Infante Quote

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking.
- Guillermo C. Infante Quote

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 C. Infante Quote

The relationship between reader and characters is very difficult. It is even more peculiar than the relationship between the writer and his characters.
- Guillermo C. Infante Quote

Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title.
- Guillermo C. Infante Quote

Watching a movie from beginning to end is like reading, because even though what you see are images, they are telling you a story.
- Guillermo C. Infante Quote

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.
- Guillermo C. Infante Quote

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.
- Guillermo C. Infante Quote

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 C. Infante Quote

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