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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.”

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a renowned Colombian novelist and a leading figure in the magical realism literary movement. His works, characterized by a unique blend of reality and fantasy, have won him widespread acclaim. His most famous novel, 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', is considered a masterpiece of Latin American literature. more

“When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.”

World Writing May Seems Difficult Simple Talent Empty Publishing Resisting Cathedrals Warehouse Citadels

Author:Alan Garner

“I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.”

Writing Poor Habit Relation Editors Absent

Book:Conversations with William H. Gass

Source: Conversations with William H. Gass

“A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke of an artist's brush- is the thumbprint of her whole person- her idea, wit, humor, passions, rhythms.”