Gabriel Garcia Marquez on what gave him permission to write…QUOTES FOR WRITERS (and people who like quotes)
One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read ‘The Metamorphosis’. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, ‘As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect…’ When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known I would have started writing a long time ago.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Reblogged this on mira prabhu and commented:
‘As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect…’ the line that metamorphosed Gabriel Garcia Marquez into a great writer. Thank you Bridget Whelan!
And thank you Mira – fascinating how a great writer influenced a great writer. It’s like a baton being passed on.