"If you're going to be a writer..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways to starve to death.
More by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”
“For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.”
“A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.”
More on Writing
“I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.”
“The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves.”
“The first law for the historian is that he shall never dare utter an untruth. The second is that he shall suppress nothing that is true. Moreover, there shall be no suspicion of partiality in his writing, or of malice.”
More on Ambition
“First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon.”
“Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth.”
“Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.”