Quotes from 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.

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.

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.

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.

She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing their dreams

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

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

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.

He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.

If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.

Children's lies are signs of great talent.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

Music is important for one's health.

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.

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.