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…

- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

A good smoker, like a good lover, always takes his time with a cigar.

- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, movi…

- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

- Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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 Cabrera Infante

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

- Guillermo Cabrera Infante