A biography for Gabriel Garcia Marquezhasn’t been written yet.
“He who awaits much can expect little.”
“From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.”
“Necessity has the face of a dog.”
“I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.”
“Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.”
“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.”
“A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.”
“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”
“The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.”
“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
“Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.”
“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.”