Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

Gabriel García Márquez (39)

Birth:	6th March, 1927
Nationality:	Colombian
Profession:	Novelist

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• Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.

  Gabriel García Márquez

  Topics in Truth

• For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

  Gabriel García Márquez

  Topics in Love

• Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.

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  Topics in Motivational

• Nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in World

• Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Sex

• My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.

  Gabriel García Márquez

  Topics in Death

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

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Marriage, Problem

• It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

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  Topics in Truth

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fiction, Invention, Writing

• Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.

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  Topics in Country

  Tags in Done, Need

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

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  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Few, Books

• 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.

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  Topics in America

  Tags in Important, Through

• People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it’s very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing ‘Love in the Time of Cholera.’

  Gabriel García Márquez

  Topics in Life, Love

  Tags in Time

• 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.

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  Topics in Truth, Work

  Tags in Single

• In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That’s the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in Believe, True

• 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 and political. There’s even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.

  Gabriel García Márquez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Ever, Political

• I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

  Gabriel García Márquez

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Alone, Must

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, True, Book

• 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.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best

• 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.

  Gabriel García Márquez

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Science, Writing