Gabriel García Márquez
Birthday:
6 March 1927, Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia
Birth Name:
Gabriel José García Márquez
Major Latin-American author of novels and short stories, a central figure in the so-called magical realism movement in Latin American literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982. Studied law and journalism in Bogotá and Cartagena. He began his career as a journalist in 1948, was a foreign correspondent in Europe during the la...
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Major Latin-American author of novels and short stories, a central figure in the so-called magical realism movement in Latin American literature. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1982. Studied law and journalism in Bogotá and Cartagena. He began his career as a journalist in 1948, was a foreign correspondent in Europe during the late 1950s, Cuba and N.Y. early 1960s, and a screenwriter, journalist and publicist in Mexico City during the 1960s. During the 1980s he moved to Mexico when restrictions where imposed on his continued traveling due to his left-view political views. Show less «
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on twenty-four hours a day.
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on twenty-four hours a day.
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.
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.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
A man know when he is growing old because he looks like his father.
A man know when he is growing old because he looks like his father.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old. They grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old. They grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
I'm a journalist. I've always been a journalist. My books couldn't have been written if I weren't a journalist because all the material was ...Show more »
I'm a journalist. I've always been a journalist. My books couldn't have been written if I weren't a journalist because all the material was taken from reality. Show less «
The world must be fucked up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.
The world must be fucked up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.
Children's lies are signs of great talent.
Children's lies are signs of great talent.
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 satis...Show more »
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. Show less «
He who awaits much can expect little.
He who awaits much can expect little.
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