Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabriel José de la Concordia García Márquez; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century and one of the best in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in his leaving law...
NationalityColombian
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 March 1927
CountryColombia
Curiosity is one of the many masks of love.
For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened.
When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.
Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.
Inspiration gives no warnings.
The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry
Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day.
He governed as if he felt predestined to never die
All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country...
We'll grow old waiting.
One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.