“The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point.”

— Gabriel García Márquez · Wisdom quote

The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point. — Gabriel García Márquez quote card
Novelist and journalist · 1927 – 2014

Colombian novelist and journalist, pioneer of magical realism and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1982). His masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude is one of the most translated and beloved novels of the twentieth century.

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