Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth.

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

She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.