Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
From Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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.'
The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.
Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
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