868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

My most important problem was to destroy the line of demarcation that separates what seems real from what seems fantastic. Because in the world that I was trying to evoke, that barrier didn’t exist.

El secreto de una buena vejez no es mas que un pacto honrado con la soledad.

Music is important for one’s health.

Children’s lies are signs of great talent.

Do not allow me to forget you.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don’t last your whole life.

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.

It’s much more important to write than to be written about.

If you love something – let. If it is yours – it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I’m with you.