Words matter. These are the best Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft – not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
The heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
If God hadn’t rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
A person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
I think that the idea that I’m writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There’s even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it’s very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing ‘Love in the Time of Cholera.’
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft – not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
Necessity has the face of a dog.
Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.
From the moment I wrote ‘Leaf Storm’ I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
From the moment I wrote ‘Leaf Storm’ I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.
It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there’s not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
A person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.
He who awaits much can expect little.
