Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes

I grew up loving books and stories. Reading became my favourite pastime, and you have to be a reader before you can be a writer.

Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing.

People do write books.

A great speech is literature.

Reading taught me how to write.

Reading is probably what leads most writers to writing.

Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

I tell people you should write what you love to read because that's where your passion is.

Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?

All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.

Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words.

I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer!

There's something magical about the idea that you can write something down and someone else can read it. I'm still mildly agog about that.

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code.

I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.

Read everything! I believe that reading made me a writer.

I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing.

I feel like reading really defined me as a writer because I lived my life outside of my own body for so much of my life and I loved it. I've always been a reader. I think living all those stories served me to naturally take that next step to creating.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

I write and I read, and I write and read my way into and out of ideas and life. And that's what we do. That's what storytellers do.

Some people read. I like to put words together.