"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 all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Colombian novelist, journalist, and Nobel laureate associated with magical realism. He is best known for One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. His fiction and nonfiction significantly shaped modern world literature.