Quotes About One Hundred Years Of Solitude

#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. Do you try to listen to calssical music but feel you don't ever really advance past knowing it's better than it sounds?

Padgett Powell

#10. MAIDEN, your simplicity, like the blueness of the lake, reveals your depth of truth.

Rabindranath Tagore

#11. Never put bananas in the refrigerator.

Roz Chast

#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. As actors, if you get a pilot on HBO or on USA, your odds are good that it's going to get picked up.

Tim DeKay

#14. If there ever has been any confusion about my sexuality, then you are someone that doesn't even know me!

Jonathan Knight

#15. There is a simple explanation for why men haven't found women funny. It's because men only ever experience women in relation to men: they never get to see what women are like with one another. Shows like ours started to let men in on the joke.

Magda Szubanski

#16. You do not keep the audience's interest by giving it information, but by withholding information ...

Robert McKee

#17. It is the tuning of the universe ... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.

Benjamin Zander

#18. 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

#19. I've been wearing Supergas forever. I'm always in flats, running around, so it makes sense for me.

Suki Waterhouse

#20. 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

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#22. Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.

Charles Bukowski

#23. Why did people do it? Why this herd curiosity about a street, a house, windows, doors? He was a public servant, the Inspector mused, but there were times when he would enjoy loading all the rubbernecks onto barges and towing them out to sea to be served, with ceremony, to sharks.

Ellery Queen

#24. My career is one of people involvement. I'm a promoter of the people, by the people, for the people. My magic lies, my people ties, this is what I want to do. I'm in it to win, I cant give in, I can't give up and I cant quit. Victory is mine. Working together works.

Don King

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#27. We're all looking for an authentic way to be engaged in the community, engaged in politics, engaged in national discussion - and so, we're clunky. We're all clunky. But it's better than not doing it.

Mona Simpson

#28. 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

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#30. Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her.

Faraaz Kazi

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#33. I love Tony Jaa. He's one of the best and most capable martial arts stuntmen in the world.

Jason Statham

#34. 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