Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I’ve learned that a man has the right to look down on another only when he has to help him to his feet.

I do not believe in an afterlife, but I believe in the power of stories.

The world is a magical place, and we are all magicians.

The only thing that matters is love. Everything else is just a distraction.

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in new beginnings.

The secret of a good story is to make people believe it's true, even if it's not.

I believe that the role of the writer is to tell the truth, even if it's a lie.

The world is so young, and we are so old.

I don't know if God exists, but if he does, he's a writer.

I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.

I don't think there's any country as scary as Colombia.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

I am a journalist. I have always been a journalist. My books could not have been written if I were not a journalist.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

No medicine cures what happiness cannot.

He who awaits much can expect little.

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.