Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

“I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez

“The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez

“It is impossible to explain. But what I like most is to eat.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez

“Until you're about the age of twenty you read everything, and you like it simply because you are reading it. then between twenty and thirty you pick up what you want, and you read the best, you read all the great works.
after that you sit and wait for them to be written. But you know the least know, the least famous writers, they are the better ones.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez

“I never used to write down all the ideas that occur to me while writing. I believed if I forgot them they were not important, and the ones that really mattered were those I remembered. Now I write them all down.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez

“I've said that anyone who doesn't contradict himself is a dogmatist, and every dogmatist is a reactionary.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Conversations with Gabriel García Márquez