
(b. 1927– )
Colombian novelist, short-story writer, journalist, and screenwriter“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry…Both are very hard work. Writing something is almost as hard as making a table. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. Both are full of tricks and techniques. Basically very little magic and a lot of hard work are involved.”
more infosource: The Paris Review Interviews, vol. II (New York: Picador, 2007), 190.
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category: carpentry, craft, reality, woodworking, writing
medium: Interview
notes: Originally published in Issue 82 of The Paris Review, 1981.
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Gabriel García Márquez