Quote of the Day (Gabriel Garcia Marquez, on Why Suffering Is Not So Good for Writers)

"You write better with all your problems resolved. You write better in good health. You write better without preoccupations. You write better when you have love in your life. There is a romantic idea that suffering and adversity are very good, very useful for the writer. I don't agree at all."—Colombian Nobel Literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1928-2014), quoted in Pete Hamill, “Pete Hamill Interviews Gabriel García Marquez: Love and Solitude,” Vanity Fair, March 1988