top of page
"I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Identity quotes

"You are created with your special features that you need to fulfill your destiny and why it is so important to accept them."

"If a man realizes who he is, he will not react to the negative things surrounding him."

"What is inherent inside you is your uniqueness and peculiarity."

"There is no man in this world that God created to be a shadow of other people."

"Your discovery and realization of your personality for the well-being of humanity is much more essential."

"Many of us will not realize who we are because we do not want to go through the pain and trials."

"knowledge of who we are prevents us from being distracted by the demands of our surroundings."

"We have worth because we were created in the image and likeness of God."

"Aren't we all homeless without a home inside our mind?"
Explore more quotes by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

"That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all."

"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."

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

"I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving between delinquency and conformity."

"I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England."

"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."

"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."
bottom of page