Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
Quotes to Explore
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I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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I like to have interesting things to write about. And when one says something is 'interesting,' one almost always means 'bad.'
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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I just write mechanical things.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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All I can guess is that when I write, I forget that it's not real. I'm living the story, and I think people can read that sincerity about the characters. They are real to me while I'm writing them, and I think that makes them real to the readers as well.
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It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
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I want to get off with the screenwriting.
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I became unsure about the future, in terms of my career. I was living in a remote location contemplating other kinds of work, not only in music.
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Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn, Than women's are.
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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
