Gabriel Garcia Marquez announces he's hanging it up. (Annoying pop-up alert.)
Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 78, winner of the 1982 Nobel literature prize, said in an interview published in part by a Spanish newspaper Wednesday that he has stopped writing, at least for the time being.
'The year 2005 was the first in my life when I did not write a single line,' the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude said in the interview conducted in Mexico, advance extracts of which were published in the Barcelona-based daily La Vanguardia.
The Independent characterizes it as "writer's block."
Getting writer's block at age 78, after having written several monumental novels. Lucky bastard.
Posted by: Pete | January 26, 2006 at 07:31 AM
I find this quite sad:
Quote from the article: '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,'
Apparently, he doesn't have much hope that inspiration will return. But, on the bright side, usually inspiration returns after you've given up on it. Perhaps that will be the case here.
(Thanks for the pop-up window warning.)
Posted by: Stephanie Pina | January 26, 2006 at 09:56 AM
Kurt Vonnegut said something like the same thing.I wouldn't put much stock in that statement—things change, yes?
Posted by: birnbaum | January 27, 2006 at 05:53 AM