Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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

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

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.