"If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Colombian novelist, journalist, and Nobel laureate associated with magical realism. He is best known for One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera. His fiction and nonfiction significantly shaped modern world literature.