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
Guillermo Cabrera InfanteI describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels
Guillermo Cabrera InfanteI think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself
Guillermo Cabrera Infante