Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.

I think no one but me has the right to write about my life as I want to write it in a particular way. I don't think any other person will be able to tell the story of my life like how I have approached it. It works best when it's written by someone who has experienced it herself.

I do like the idea of being an auteur in the sense of writing and being in your own stuff.

It's easier to cast yourself in something you've written because you know your voice.

Respect is one of the greatest expressions of love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don't respect you. They consider that you're not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story.

You can't write ... on the strength of influence. You can only write a good story or a good novel by yourself.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

I never get sick of writing my own stories because there's a certain comfort in knowing you will never run out of material. It's relaxing, actually, to write.

Fiction writing feels more honest to me.

You may be able to write a novel, you may not. You will never know until you have worked very hard indeed and written at least part of it. You will never really know until you have written the whole of it and submitted it for publication.

I thought, if I write a book that is not a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, it's not going to mean that I will not get any criticism. I might as well write the book that I want to write.

I'm really open to just about anything but I think the real dream is to be able to write my own thing.

...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.

I think it's really boring, from the point of view of the novelist, to write about yourself. Tedious. But that's very hard to explain to people who really don't believe in the possibility of invention.

I've never actually even contemplated writing a book or having a book.

People do write books.

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.

I love being a writer-director. I couldn't imagine directing without writing it. You have to write and tell your stories - that's what directing is to me.

My only real claim to anyone's attention lies in my writing.

I got into writing because books and stories were always a big part of my life. I loved listening to them and then reading them, and I loved making them up.

The truth is, for however much my stories come out of things that have happened to me, they're not darkly or as deeply personal as someone like Marc Maron or a lot of comedians, but they are essentially my life and my interpretation of it.

The laws of literary creation are unique; they don't change, and they are the same for everyone everywhere. I mean that you can tell a story that covers three hours of human life or three centuries - it comes to the same thing. Each writer who creates something authentic in a natural way instinctively also creates the technique that suits him.

I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.