All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Sooner or later people believe writers rather than the government.” — Gabriel García Márquez 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
It's much more important to write than to be written about. — 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
“Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that… — Gabriel García Márquez 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
“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
If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Even when I don't have to write, I arrange it every morning with the pointless rigor that has made me lose so… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“I never used to write down all the ideas that occur to me while writing. I believed if I forgot them they… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Today, retired but not defeated, I enjoy the sacred privilege of writing at home, with the phone off the hook so that… — 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
“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
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
“I continued working without a break, but in the middle of the third story...I felt myself tiring more than if I had… — 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
One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I… — 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
