Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“...novels do not begin the way you want them to, but the way they want to.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“With "The Thousand and One Nights", I learned and never forgot that we should read only those books that force us to… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate,..” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Even before his eyes began to fail he had his secretaries read to him, and then he read no other way because… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“his blue eyes, lively and close-set, revealed the gentleness of a man who had read all of the books.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The world must be all fucked up,’ he said then, ‘when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.’ That was… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The world must be all fucked up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Until you're about the age of twenty you read everything, and you like it simply because you are reading it. then between… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“They showed me that it was not necessary to demonstrate facts: it was enough for the author to have written something for… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The Captain looked at Fermina Daza and saw on her eyelashes the first glimmer of wintry frost. Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Courage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“He aprendido que un hombre sólo tiene derecho a mirar a otro hacia abajo cuando ha de ayudarle a levantarse.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“I didn't do any of what they told me,' she said, 'because the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
