A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He who awaits much can expect little.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Necessity has the face of a dog.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.