Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.Collection: Marriage
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.Collection: Knowledge
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.Collection: Marriage
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.Collection: Age
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.Collection: Dreams
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.Collection: 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.Collection: Home
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Friendship
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.Collection: Alone
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
He who awaits much can expect little.
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.
A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
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.
An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
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.
Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.
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 interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
Necessity has the face of a dog.
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.
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.'
Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.Collection: Blow
Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.Collection: Falling In Love
If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.Collection: Love You
Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.Collection: Curiosity
No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.Collection: Matter
Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.Collection: Believe
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.Collection: Secret
I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground.Collection: Men
The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.Collection: Country
If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.Collection: Love You
It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.Collection: Love
When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.Collection: Power
A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.Collection: Friendship
Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.Collection: Opportunity
It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.Collection: Memories
Do not allow me to forget youCollection: Forget You
I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves.Collection: Children
Inspiration gives no warnings.Collection: Inspiration