Gabriel García Márquez quotes - page 5

In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think. (Gabriel García Márquez)
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not-when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it. (Gabriel García Márquez)
I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Interviewer: You describe seemingly fantastic events in such minute detail that it gives them their own reality. Is this something you have picked up from journalism? García Márquez: That's a journalistic trick which you can also apply to literature. If you say that there are elephants flying in the sky, people are not going to believe you. But if you say that there are four hundred and twenty-five elephants in the sky, people will probably believe you. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
I couldn't tell you because even I don't know who I am yet. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
There are no two men in this world more similar than you and him," she told me. "And that's the worst thing for having a conversation. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame. I don't really like to say this because it never sounds sincere, but I would really have liked for my books to have been published after my death, so I wouldn't have to go through all this business of fame and being a great writer. In my case, the only advantage to fame is that I have been able to give it a political use. Otherwise, it is quite uncomfortable. The problem is that you're famous for twenty-four hours a day, and you can't say, "Okay, I won't be famous until tomorrow," or press a button and say, "I won't be famous here or now." View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Old people, with other old people, are not so old. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
It is life, more than death, that has no limits. (Gabriel García Márquez)
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez