868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. ‘Forever,’ he said.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Sex is one’s consolation when love is not enough.

Let me stay here,” he said. “There was soap.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

La fatalidad nos hace invisibles.

From the moment I wrote ‘Leaf Storm’ I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

I have never done anything except write, but I don’t possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.

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