Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Profession : Novelist

Birth : March 6, 1927

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

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 Garcia Marquez

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

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

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 Garcia Marquez