Gabriel Garcia Marquez World Quotations

From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.

Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown.

Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.

It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.

Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end

She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.

I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .