The ego's blocking the light from coming.

Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.

We have all this courage as writers, but then there's this fear.

I have to get my will in order. I have to get the Macondo Foundation going. I want to invest the money and resources that I've gotten from working so hard so that it's shared and it has its life beyond me.

I do travel a lot, because I need oxygen, I need to go to places to meet people who aren't upset at me because I'm asking for peace.

I don't think I'll write a large novel again because it was like being in jail for me. Even though that's the funniest book I've ever written, it was the saddest period of my life.

I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.