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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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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But most of all, I learned that it’s possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there’s been a lifetime of disappointment between them.
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My parents are opposites who balance each other out.
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How much unbelief exists in the minds of the Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I revealed to them, and which God revealed to me - namely that Adam is our Father and God-.
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there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious, in which case I love you, for curiosity about the world and all its corners is a beautiful thing.
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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
