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. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Read Quote
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. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Read Quote
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 Garcia Marquez Read Quote
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. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Read Quote
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. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Read Quote
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 Garcia Marquez Read Quote
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Read Quote
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. Gabriel Garcia Marquez Read Quote
