Quotes from 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.

It is easier to start a war than to end it.

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.

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

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

Ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's faith had been, making it impossible to forget.

If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

Necessity has the face of a dog.

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.

How strange women are.

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.

Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

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

There had never been a death so foretold.

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.

The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.

He who awaits much can expect little.

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

In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.