Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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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.
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To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.
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I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are
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She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.
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Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
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But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.
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It was a love of perpetual flight.
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Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.
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No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
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The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.
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Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.
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Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
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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.
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This soup tastes like windows...
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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.
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The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.
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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
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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.
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If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.