Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: colombian
Birth: March 6, 1927 - April 17, 2014

Topics

Day Bad Fame 24 Hours Hours Goes

While some people are certainly seeing economic benefits, many others are unemployed, underemployed, without health insurance and struggling to make ends meet.

Health People Insurance Seeing Meet

I simply love Wagner's music. That actually started very early. He was the first composer I was exposed very much to because my parents introduced me to Wagner's music very early.

Love Music Parents Me Early First

Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated.

People Complicated Build Two People

Creating legislation is a tough process. But watering down legislation? Strangling it with lawsuits and comment letters and blue-ribbon committees? Not so tough, it turns out.

Tough Process Down Creating Letters

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.

Work Freedom Dictatorship Want Jail

Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

Business Trust People Game You Well

Many American Muslims are peaceful and define jihad primarily as an internal struggle to improve.

Struggle American Peaceful Improve

If you ask me about Napoleon, I'll tell you about his relationship with sugar. And canning - thanks to Napoleon, we have canning.

Relationship Me You Sugar Ask Tell

I've been very fortunate - You only can do what you're offered, you know?

You Know Fortunate Only Been Very

I got into this thing called the National Youth Theatre, and to me, that was all about the status quo. It seemed to me like 'Downton Abbey' - all the working-class and black people were playing servants, or the gravedigger in 'Hamlet,' and the boys from Eton and posh private schools got Hamlet, all the big roles.

People Me Youth Theatre Black Big

I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike.

Great Value Think Dark Ability Open

I majored in the history and literature of Russia and Britain. It has not helped my career.

Love Week Wings Three Buffalo Eat

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez