"Every scene, every gesture sings life and denies death...He is an absolute master." – New York Times on NO ONE WRITES TO THE COLONEL
"Garcia Marquez has extraordinary strength and firmness of imagination and writes with the calmness of a man who knows exactly what wonders hecan perform." – Alfred Kazin, New York Times Book Review
"It is the genius of Garcia Marquez that fatalism and possibility somehow coexist, that dreams redeem, that there is laughter even in death." – Jonathan Leonard, New York Times
"For García Márquez the world contains mysteries that we need and can easily live with, but also miracles that we cannot understand, that speak for forces unknown to men." – Newsweek on LEAF STORM
"A virtuoso performance: a tour de force...The great vision and heart of García Márquez are what make it as large in spirit as it is small in size." – Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World on CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD