It's much more important to write than to be written about.
Interpretation
Creating original work is more significant than receiving recognition for it.
The quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez emphasizes the value of creativity and the act of writing itself rather than seeking acclaim or fame from others. It highlights the intrinsic reward of the creative process over external validation, suggesting that the true essence of artistry lies in the expression and creation of one’s own voice.
In practice
This quote can be used in a writing workshop to inspire participants to focus on their craft.
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.
I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere, and for me, the fiction and the nonfiction, creative or otherwise, all come from the same place.
It is always hard for poets to believe that one says their poems are bad not because one is a fiend but because their poems are bad.
The magician to some degree is trying to drive him or herself mad in a controlled setting, within controlled laws.
Paris... is a world meant for the walker alone, for only the pace of strolling can take in all the rich (if muted) detail.
There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.
Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance.
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