Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything he had done in his life had been in vain, that he could not go on: it was the end.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Without intending to, without even knowing it, he demonstrated with his life that his father had been right when he repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager so lucid or dangerous, than a poet.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

During the luncheon he paid attention to no one except his own phantoms.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Florentino Ariza always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudencia Pitre more than any other, always think about the hidden meanings of questions more than about the questions themselves.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

I became another man. I tried to reread the classics that had guided me in adolescence, and I could not bear them. I buried myself in the romantic writings I had repudiated when my mother tried to impose them on me with a heavy hand, and in them I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

That would be fine,” she said “If we’re alone, we’ll leave the lamp lighted so that we can see each other, and I can holler as much as I want without anybody’s having to butt in, and you can whisper in my ear any crap you can think of.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

The wind from the Caribbean blew in the windows along with the racket made by the birds, and Fermina Daza felt in her blood the wild beating of her free will.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Maybe I'll have a tumour like his someday. At first it will be a small but growing sphere that will branch out, growing larger in my stomach like a fetus. I will probably feel it when it starts to take motion, moving inward with the fury of a sleepwalking child, traveling through my intestines blindly -

~ Gabriel García Márquez

The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

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.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

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

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

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.

~ Gabriel García Márquez

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 García Márquez

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