Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
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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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Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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I was a writer for hire. I wrote to pay the bills.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.
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If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.
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It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
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Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
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I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.
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Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.
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In journalism, we recognize a kind of hierarchy of fame among the famous. We measure it in two ways: by the length of an obituary and by how far in advance it is prepared. Presidents, former presidents, and certain heads of state are at the top of the chain.
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Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.
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The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience.
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Our parents provided us with the essentials, then got on with their own lives. Which makes me realise that my parents were brilliant, not for what they did, but more for what they didn't do.
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A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
