"Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.
More by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.”
“Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.”
“Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.”
More on Writing
“I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.”
“Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.”
“My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.”
More on Fame
“Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.”
“What I'd have liked would have been the money and the hit records without the fame.”
“The idea of being a rock and roll musician sort of suited my talents and mentality. The freedom was great, but then I found out I wasn't free. I'd got boxed in...The whole Beatle thing is just beyond comprehension ... subconsciously I was crying for help.”