Hundred Years Of Solitude Quotes

#1. 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.

Edmund White

#2. Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#3. My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

James Patterson

#4. 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Francine Prose

#5. 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.

Jandy Nelson

#6. Because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#7. Winner of the "Booker of Bookers," Midnight's Children is the novel that can be said to have done for Indian literature what One Hundred Years of Solitude did for the literature of the Americas, exciting a boom whose echoes have yet to fade.

Salman Rushdie

#8. If Midnight's Children is India's One Hundred Years of Solitude, then A Suitable Boy must be its War and Peace.

Whitaker

#9. It is easier to start a war than to end it.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#10. He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated the most.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#11. Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#13. It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#14. He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#15. Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand ... How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years this time, miss ...

Jean Rhys

#16. Where one did not suffer with day to day problems because they were solved before hand in ones imagination.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#17. So many knives and forks and spoons were not meant for a human being but for a centipede ...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#18. In the end all books are written for your friends.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#19. Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez