Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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.'”

“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.”

“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.”

“The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.”

“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.”

“Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.”

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

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

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

“An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.”