Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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...but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.
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Music is important for one's health.
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Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.
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The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.
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In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.
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It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.
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Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.
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Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.
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She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.
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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.
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Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.
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The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
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It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
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He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.
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One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.
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The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.
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My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
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If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.
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He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.
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I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.
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Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.
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Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.
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She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.