Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

An early-rising man... a good spouse but a bad husband.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Necessity has the face of a dog.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He who awaits much can expect little.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez