Happy birthday, Gabriel García Márquez! Here are some quotes from his writing.
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old. They grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
“It’s much more important to write than to be written about.”“It’s much more important to write than to be written about.”
“I don’t believe in the romantic myth that a writer must be hungry and in a wreck in order to write.”
John Madera is the author of Nervosities (Anti-Oedipus Press, 2024). His other fiction is published in Conjunctions, Salt Hill, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His nonfiction is published in American Book Review, Bookforum, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Rain Taxi: Review of Books, The Believer, The Brooklyn Rail, and many other venues. Recipient of an M.F.A. in Literary Arts from Brown University, New York State Council on the Arts awardee John Madera lives in New York City, Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.
