Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread
Guillermo Cabrera InfanteBut I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that
Guillermo Cabrera InfanteYou 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 Cabrera Infante