Gabriel García Márquez

Quotes

• “Interviewer: You describe seemingly fantastic events in such minute detail that it gives them their own reality. Is this...”
• “I belong to the first generation of Latin American writers brought up reading other Latin American writers. Before my ti...”
• “I'm more interested in writers like Marquez who have an instinctive way of handling the natural and the legendary in clo...”
• “I really admire Marquez's novel Chronicles of a Death Foretold. And one of the things that's so wonderful about the book...”
• “I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute c...”
• “In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now ...”
• “(When did you notice this change with publishers-when they finally started publishing Latinos?) JOC: I think it was a co...”
• “I had already read One-hundred Years of Solitude when I was in college, probably because that was when it was translated...”
• “Chinese literature cannot be separated from world literature. The impact of Marquez on me can be viewed as a communicati...”
• “I read Marquez when I was a student and One Hundred Years of Solitude is kind of the bible that I used to try to figure ...”
• “It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a...”
• “They thought Gabriel García Márquez's would be the way, because of his richness, because his work can be multilayer. He ...”
• “Marjorie Agosín "Reflections on the Fantastic" Translated from the Spanish by Celeste Kostopulos-Cooperman. In Secret We...”
• “Until I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, ...”
• “But I believe without any doubt at all that our greatest good fortune was that even in the most extreme difficulties we ...”
• “Linda Hogan (writer) in interview, talking about having a large cast of characters in a novel. Studies in American India...”
• “In One Hundred Years of Solitude,/Márquez wrote that we are birthed/by our mothers only once, but life obligates/us to g...”
• “… for an instant I thought about stopping the cab to say goodbye, but I preferred not to defy again a destiny as uncerta...”
• “Speaking of nuclear weapons in "The Cataclysm of Damocles" on the anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, on Au...”
• “I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you in...”
• “There are no two men in this world more similar than you and him," she told me. "And that's the worst thing for having a...”
• “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 ...”
• “Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.”
• “It was impossible to conceive of two creatures so different who got along so well and loved each other so much.”
• “Derek Walcott, 1977 interview collected in Conversations with Derek Walcott edited by William Baer (1996)”
• “Love in the time of cholera : contains description of the wreck of the San José at Cartagena de Indias”
• “Mo Yan, Morning sun : interviews with Chinese writers of the lost generation by Laifong Leung (1994)”
• “Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.”
• “Judith Ortiz Cofer, interview (2000) in A Poet's Truth: Conversations with Latino/Latina Poets”
• “… no sooner had you done something than someone else appeared who threatened to do it better.”
• “...a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth ...”
• “Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1981), trans. Gregory Rabassa [Ballantine, 1984, ], p. 47”
• “Gabo - The Creation of Gabriel García Márquez. Documentary, Germany, 2015, 90 min.”
• “Rosario Ferré Interviews with Latin American Writers by Gazarian Gautier (1988)”
• “Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away bad memories and magnified the good ones.”
• “Before adolescence, memory is more interested in the future than the past...”
• “… nothing was easy, least of all surviving Sunday afternoons without love.”
• “Because for you, quitting smoking would be like killing someone you love.”
• “Now you don't have to say yes because your heart is saying it for you.”
• “… my unhealthy timidity might be a great obstacle to me in my life.”
• “I couldn't tell you because even I don't know who I am yet.”
• “Linda Hogan (writer) interview with Missouri Review (1992)”
• “Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.”
• “Interview with Gabriel García Márquez (1998)”
• “Children's lies are signs of great talent.”
• “Nobel lecture (8 December 1982, archived)”
• “Gabriel García Márquez at Nobelprize.org”
• “Kathleen Alcalá Interview (2021)”
• “Nadine Gordimer Interview (2004)”
• “Erika Sánchez in the poem "Amá”