Quotes About Writing Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#1. Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#2. When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#3. Today, retired but not defeated, I enjoy the sacred privilege of writing at home, with the phone off the hook so that no one can disturb me, and without a censor looking over my shoulder to see what I am writing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#4. Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#5. The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

Axel Munthe

#6. Alone, dying alone. Sentence after apparently unremarkable sentence pass until suddenly I feel myself hit in the solar plexus by the accumulated tension. I look back and ask, How did you do that? I return in memory

Linda Grant

#7. The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#8. All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#9. A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#10. 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

#11. I never used to write down all the ideas that occur to me while writing. I believed if I forgot them they were not important, and the ones that really mattered were those I remembered. Now I write them all down.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#12. 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

#13. The only thing that didn't occur to her was to give up. Nevertheless, he seemed insensible to her
delirium; it was like writing to nobody.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#14. Another dynamic of this last year was our increased penetration into the Japanese market.

David Milne

#15. It's much more important to write than to be written about.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#16. When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.

Pat Riley

#17. As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#18. Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.

Asa Don Brown