Guillermo Cabrera Infante 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.

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

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.

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

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.