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Marquez Says He's Stopped Writing for Now
2006-01-29
Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who rarely offers glimpses into his private life, says he has stopped writing -- for the time being, at least. "The year 2005 was the first in my life when I did not write a single line," the 78-year-old author was quoted as saying in Sunday's edition of the Barcelona-based daily La Vanguardia. "I haven't sat before a computer. And besides, I have no prospect or prospects to do it. I had never stopped writing, this is the first year in my life I haven't done any writing," he said. Garcia Marquez is best known for "One Hundred Years of Solitude," which earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982, and "Love in the Time of Cholera." In 2002, he published "Living to Tell the Tale," the first volume of an autobiography. His latest novel, "Memories of My Melancholy Whores," came out last year. Garcia Marquez said there might be another book in him -- if inspiration strikes -- but he's not optimistic. "With the practice I have, I could write another novel without further problems, but people notice when one has not put the guts in it," he said.
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