Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes & Sayings

“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”

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

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

“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.”

“The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.”

“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.”

“He who awaits much can expect little.”

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

“If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.”

“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.”