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Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes

Writers rush in where publishers fear to tread and where translators fear to tread.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: cuban
Birth: April 22, 1929 - February 21, 2005

Topics

Fear Where Rush Tread Publishers

When I was growing up, my dad was away a lot. He did a lot of work in crisis zones, places like Uganda or Rwanda.

Work Growing Up Growing Crisis Up

Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.

Money Wealth Never Rumors Been

I think it doesn't matter, the color of your skin; it doesn't matter where you are from. It matters how you relate to people, how you connect with people, and the open-mindedness with which you approach the subject. That's to me what matters when you are making a film, not who you are or where you are from.

Matthew Heineman

People Me Color Think You Skin

I think the State shouldn't poke its nose into the sexual relations of consenting adults.

Rocco Buttiglione

Think Nose State I Think Sexual

I've kind of become obsessed with the pedal steel. It's a beautiful sound, and the mechanics of it are so interesting.

Beautiful Interesting Kind Become

The people that matter to me the most are the people that are in my life. That's who I really learn from, and it's always a very personal kind of connection.

Life People Me Learn My Life Kind

I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.

Sports I Am Yes Up Big Sports Fan

According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.

Jonathan Mayhew

Men World Weakness Bad True Way

I actually have two children now, and sometimes I wonder if that's it. Because they do make writing and directing more complicated and more difficult, especially now that they're very young.

Children Writing Wonder Complicated

My goal is always transformation. I love to watch people transform their lives, which includes their inner world and their outer world.

Love People World Transformation

It's one of those things: I'm never gonna get over not fighting, I don't think, but I'm content with my decision to retire.

Decision Think Fighting Never Over

The PC is becoming a truck. Everybody is using a tablet and a phone.

Truck Phone Becoming Everybody PC

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