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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread. - Guillermo C. Infante Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 C. Infante Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I think all writing is done through memory. - Guillermo C. Infante Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. - Guillermo C. Infante Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter. - Guillermo C. Infante Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. - Guillermo C. Infante Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 C. Infante Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips. - Guillermo C. Infante Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Puns are a form of humor with words. - Guillermo C. Infante Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I am against the notion of style in itself. - Guillermo C. Infante Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost. - Guillermo C. Infante Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio. - Guillermo C. Infante Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I was never a true journalist, I was a movie critic. - Guillermo C. Infante Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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