“It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiog...” — Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quote

“It means that no matter what you write, be it a biography, an autobiography, a detective novel, or a conversation on the street, it all becomes fiction as soon as you write it down.”

“I think writers rush in where everybody is very frightened to tread.”

“I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.”

“One of the autobiographies I really liked was Bob Dylan's. It was interesting because he didn't do it in a linear fashion.”

“A novel, especially a first novel, is... really an emotional autobiography. All these emotions I'm embarrassed at having had, I've written about.”

“I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.'”