Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Cry, Nobody, Tears

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dreams, True, Old

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Life, Remember, Happens

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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Love, Friendship, Great

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Morning, Love, Marriage

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Money, Rich, Same

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Marriage, Happiness, Good

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Father's Day, Father, Old

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

God, Him, Afraid

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

Home, Wife, Days

People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Life, Love, Time

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Good, Heart, Bad

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Good, Husband, Bad

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Everything, Fat, Seems

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Time, God, Sunday

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Bad, Goes, Fame

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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Knowledge, Science, Writing

Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Best, Doctors, Feeding

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Work, Truth, Single

The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Important, Through, America

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Truth, Few, Books

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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Best, Try, Storm

He who awaits much can expect little.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

True, Book, Find

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Biography

Nationality: Colombian

Born: March 6, 1927

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