Quotes by Gabriel Marquez

• Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
• The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
• The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
• The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
• 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.
• Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
• What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
• Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.
• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
• He who awaits much can expect little.
• No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
• A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
• An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
• 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.
• I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
• If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
• Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
• Necessity has the face of a dog.
• A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
• It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.