868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

  • Author Gabriel García Márquez
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    She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she’ll be sorry if she isn’t guided by her heart.

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    Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft – not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

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    I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they’re dead, because that’s where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.

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    I don’t have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It’s not a scientific thing.

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    Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale...

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    The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o’clock and the Conservatives at eight.

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