Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

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

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

Necessity has the face of a dog. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

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

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

In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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