868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

I can’t think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

As a writer I’m merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

Never stop smiling not even when you’re sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.

Most critics don’t realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.

One had to live a long time to know a man’s true nature.

We’ll grow old waiting.

The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not – when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

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.