Gabriel García Márquez

Famous quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez:

"Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability."

"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast."

"...human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves."

"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good."

"He who awaits much can expect little."

"I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him."

"She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."

"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."

"Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry."

"Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day."

"An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband."

"Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors."

"It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination."

"The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there."

"The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen."

"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."

"I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams."

"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."

"Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale."

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