868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.

While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person.

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.

For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.

Surrealism runs through the streets,

I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.