Quotes About Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a newspaperman originally in Colombia. He talked about - and I agree - how everybody has a public life, a private life, and a secret life.

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.

All of the great writers whom I admire have died. I guess the most recent one would be Marquez.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

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.

For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all.

A lot of the books I read are in Spanish. There's this great author, Garcia Marquez.

Nel discorso di accettazione del Nobel che ho già ricordato, Nadine Gordimer evoca una frase di Gabriel García Márquez: "Il modo migliore in cui uno scrittore può servire la rivoluzione è scrivere il meglio che può". Senza imbrogli, senza scorciatoie, dicendo la verità.

I was seated at the president's table next to the wife of Gabriel García Márquez. It was a Clinton talkfest

García Márquez le cedió los derechos de Relato de un náufrago al sobreviviente colombiano que le contó aquella historia.

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

Salvador Allende: Contra Judíos, Homosexuales y otros ´degenerados´".

Este acercamiento entusiasmó tanto a la Unión Soviética, que en el mismo año de 1964 instaló en Chile una residencia legal de la KGB[4] en Santiago.