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Gabriel Garcia Marquez says he has stopped writing
By DPA
Jan 25, 2006, 17:14 GMT

Barcelona - 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.

Garcia Marquez did not exclude the possibility that inspiration would come back to him, though he doubted it.

'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,' said the author, whose most recent work, Memories of My Melancholy Whores, was published in 2004.