That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think . — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead,… — 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
Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human… — 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… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not take any… — 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