Top 100 Marquez's Quotes
#1. All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez must have experienced everything in his novels.
Haruki Murakami
#2. As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.
Stephen King
#3. That's why I'm a success, it's because I don't middle in other people's lives.
Melanie Marquez
#4. If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#5. Jose Arcadio Buendia took his wife's words literally. He looked out the window and saw the barefoot children in the sunny garden and he had the impression that only at that instant had they begun to exist, conceived by Ursula's spell.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#6. 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
#7. Remember that everything that is good, whatever it's origin, comes from the holy spirit.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#8. She began to study with a teacher of teachers, whom they brought for that purpose from the city of Mompox, and who died unexpectedly two weeks later, and she continued for several years with the best musician at the seminary, whose gravedigger's breath distorted her arpeggios.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#11. Her copy of the photograph had been lost, and Hildebranda's was almost invisible, but they could both recognize themselves through the mists of disenchantment: young and beautiful as they would never be again.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#13. One never quite stops believing,' said the Marquis. 'Some doubt remains forever.' Abrenuncio understood. He had always thought that ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's faith had been, making it impossible to forget.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#14. The driver warned me: Be careful, scholar, they kill in that house. I replied: If it's for love it doesn't matter.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#15. Life is so complete that even when we are knocked on our backs, we have the best view of the stars.
Laura Teresa Marquez
#16. I felt good in all my fights. It's all in the preparation. I prepare myself for all of them. And I felt good in all my fights.
Juan Manuel Marquez
#17. Do whatever you want, but don't lose that child," she said. "There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#18. The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#22. A few of the world's most famous non-American novelists have large followings in the United States, among them Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Guenter Grass, who were both popular even before winning the Nobel.
Stephen Kinzer
#23. I go in the sea as little as I can. If there's a girl and I have to accompany her, then obviously I go (laughs)!
Marc Marquez
#24. Trying to provoke him into a terrifying sentence, I said: The only definitive thing is death. Yes, he said, but it isn't easy to get there when one's condition is as good as yours.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#25. He considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#26. Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his recent habit of sobbing while he slept, but she did not identify these as the unequivocal signs of final decay but rather as a happy return to childhood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#27. I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#28. What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#29. I think that it's important to try to keep reality. I think that Gabriel Garcia Marquez speaks a lot about reality in his magical realism. So I don't think we have to be hyper-realistic. But we have to understand the pressures that undergird the lives of the characters within that novel.
Walter Mosley
#30. Manny Pacquiao always makes a fake move that I know too well. He fakes a charge forward and then looks like he is going to follow with a one-two. That's a common fake he has.
Juan Manuel Marquez
#31. Thank God I found my Chinaman in time. It's like being married to your little finger, but he's all mine.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#32. 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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#35. You have a heart of stone," she told him.
"It's not a question of a heart," he said. "The room's getting full of moths.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#36. Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#37. If I were a woman. I need to be loved a great deal. My great problem is to be loved more, and that's why I write.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#38. The woman stayed on her stool, silent, concentrating, watching the man's movements with an air of declining sadness. Watching him as a lamp about to go out might have looked at a man.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#39. A lot of writers fall in love with their sentences or their construction of sentences, and sometimes that's great, but not everybody is Gabriel Garcia Marquez or James Joyce. A lot of people like to pretend that they are, and they wind up not giving people a good read or enlightening them.
James Patterson
#40. 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.'
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#41. For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#43. That would be fine," she said "If we're alone, we'll leave the lamp lighted so that we can see each other, and I can holler as much as I want without anybody's having to butt in, and you can whisper in my ear any crap you can think of.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#44. 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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#45. One of the saddest things about dying is that it's the only event in my life I won't be able to write about.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#46. That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#47. Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung a cowbell around the girl's wrist so she would not lose track of her in the shadows of the house.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#48. Most of the times it's healthier to start over in a different way, or throw it away.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#49. Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#50. 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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#51. I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#54. A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#56. She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#59. As I hear him, I understand that he's not more moronic because of the brandy than he is because of his cowardice.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#60. That the past is one lie, and the memory has no returning, becouse every old spring is beyond retrieve, and even the craziest and most persistent love is just a temporary truth ...
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#62. He himself, facing a firing squad, would not understand too well the concatenation of the series of subtle but irrevocable accidents that bought him to that point.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#63. It was said that the hernia whistled like a lugubrious bird on stormy nights and twisted in unbearable pain when a buzzard feather was burned nearby, but no one complained about those discomforts because a large, well-carried rupture was, more than anything else, a display of masculine honor.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#65. Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#66. I'll have plenty of time to rest when I die, but this eventuality is not yet part of my plans.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#69. And in the space that he had occupied in her memory she allowed a field of poppies to bloom.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#70. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people, they kept on blooming like little children and playing like dogs.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#71. She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#73. I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer.
Juan Manuel Marquez
#74. I'm not going to do it again," Lena Marquez whispered to the red purse across the hall from her nestle of blankets. "Never again.
Aaron Michael Ritchey
#75. I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#76. The only wars here will be civil wars, and those are like killing your own mother.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#78. Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#80. 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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#81. T nightfall, at
the oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes rose
out of the swamps, and a tender breath of human shit, warm and sad, stirred
the certainty of death in the depths of one's soul.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#82. The ancient priest who had taken Father Angel's place and whose name no one had bothered to find out awaited God's mercy stretched out casually in a hammock, tortured by arthritis and the insomnia of doubt while the lizards and rats fought over the inheritance of the nearby church.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#84. Don't stay with Urdanetea, he told him. And don't go with your family to the United States. It's omnipotent and terrible, and its tale of liberty will end in a plague of miseries for us all.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#86. By virtue of marrying a man she does not love for money. That's the lowest kind of whore.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#87. It's like a firstborn son: you spend your life working for him, sacrificing everything for him, and at the moment of truth, he does just as he pleases.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#88. Let's forget about each other forever," she told him. "we're too old for this sort of thing now.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#89. In a solemn way, as if he had just thought of it, he said: The world is moving ahead. Yes, I said, it's moving ahead, but it's revolving around the sun.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#90. A woman who was washing clothes in the river during the hottest time of the day ran screaming down the main street in an alarming state of commotion.
"It's coming," she finally explained. "Something frightful, like a kitchen dragging a village behind it.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#91. I've said that anyone who doesn't contradict himself is a dogmatist, and every dogmatist is a reactionary.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#92. They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in their own time, turning into memories, mists from other days, until they were absorbed into oblivion.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#94. Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#95. Look at the air, listen to the buzzing of the sun, the same as yesterday and the day before. Today is Monday too.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#97. Let me soap you," he murmured.
"Thank you for your good intentions," she said, "but my two hands are quite enough."
"Even if it's just your back," the foreigner begged.
"That would be silly," she said. "People never soap their backs.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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