Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
Interpretation
Gabriel Garcia Marquez acknowledges the influence of William Faulkner on his soul and Ernest Hemingway on his writing skills.
In this quote, Gabriel Garcia Marquez reflects on the profound impact that two literary giants have had on his development as a writer. He credits Faulkner for touching his soul through his literary themes and emotional depth, while he recognizes Hemingway's mastery of writing techniques as essential to improving his own craft. This highlights the distinction between emotional inspiration and technical guidance in the creative process.
In practice
This quote could be used in a literary discussion about the influences of different authors.
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.
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.
She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room.
Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.
I am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.
Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.
I never studied theatre; I learned it by doing it. If I had studied theatre, I would not be making the kind of theatre I am making.
I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort and disappointment and perseverance.
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