#it

Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#drama #drama

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

#both #complex #concrete #game #literature

I am against the notion of style in itself. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#am #i #i am #itself #notion

I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#british #i #i am #only #spanish

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. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#between #bit #conformity #consider #exquisite

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#calling #describe #elsewhere #i #insist

I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#believe #i #i am #i do #inspiration

I do not consider myself a Hispanic writer. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#hispanic #i #i do #myself #writer

I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of this or that character does not matter to me. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#character #characters #does #i #i write

No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#absolutely not #jigsaw #jigsaw puzzle #like #linear