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. ”

I think all writing is done through memory. ”

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels. ”

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels. ”

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. ”

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. ”

I am against the notion of style in itself. ”

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. ”

I don't have any style. ”

When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader. ”