Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.

Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

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.

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

In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.

When he went through the kitchen he kissed Rebeca on the forehead. "Get those bad thoughts out of your head," he told her. "You're going to be happy.

Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.

I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.