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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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About Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel José García Márquez was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America. Considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, particularly in the Spanish language, he was awarded the 1972 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature. He pursued a self-directed education that resulted in leaving law school for a career in journalism. From early on he showed no inhibitions in his critic…

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

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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.
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.
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.
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 al…