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 Read 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 Cabrera Infante Read Quote
So I do not consider myself a chronicler of my fatherland or even a chronicler of Havana. Guillermo Cabrera Infante Read Quote
Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title. Guillermo Cabrera Infante Read Quote
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me. Guillermo Cabrera Infante Read Quote
My parents were founders of the Cuban Communist Party, and I grew up extremely poor. Guillermo Cabrera Infante Read 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 Cabrera Infante Read Quote
