"Like Revelation, One Hundred Years of Solitude sums up the Bible, projecting its patterns of creation, empire, decadence, renovation, and catastrophe onto history." (Lois Parkinson Zamora)

"Bad poetry is very important because you can only get to good poetry by means of bad poetry." (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

"I don't forget things I'm interested in, and I forget things right away that don't interest me. So I have a selective memory, which is quite a comfortable thing." (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

"...the novel shows how there can be no continental agreement on what is real and what is fantastic in a continent where it is possible for a paleolithic community to reside at an hour or two's flight from a vast, modern city." (George R. McMurray)

"So One Hundred Years of Solitude is a novel about a dream of a city-or of a country-that proved to be an illusion: as insubstantial as an image in a mirror, as unreal as a fiction. What was that dream all about? It was the dream that perhaps all founding fathers have-a dream of greatness, of progress, of excellence, the Utopian dream that accompanies all acts of foundation." (McMurray)

"One Hundred Years of Solitude is the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since the Don Quixote of Cervantes." (Pablo Neruda)

"It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination while the truth is that there's not a single line in my work that does not have a basis in reality." (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)