"Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk."
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.