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Writing Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- It's much more important to write than to be written about.
- 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.
- When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate…
- As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
- A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
- People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To…
- 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…
- I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary…
- The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it on the harsh…
- 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…
- I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the…
- One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and…
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