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's fiction may be found in Conjunctions, Opium Magazine, The &Now Awards 2: The Best Innovative Writing, and many other journals. His criticism may be found 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, John Madera lives in New York City, where he runs Rhizomatic and manages and edits Big Other.
