868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

Inspiration gives no warnings.

When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat.

The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.

The only everyday and eternal reality was love.

Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are

The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.

This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.

The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry