Gabriel Garcia Marquez!!

A book? Only one book? Now that it is a problem. How to choose just one book? For all the books I've read many have left a trace in my soul. Each in its way made me dream, learn new things, to find another way to see reality, to understand other opinions. What I know and what you are is largely influenced by the books that I have passed through the hands. And not many times a book was one that reconciled me with myself. Therefore, I choose now to speak about "Living to tell your life", the first volume of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's memoirs, in which he narrates his life before becoming a famous writer, and explains how he discovered that he is passion, what he did to fulfill their dreams and what was most important to me: how he learned to overcome criticism and rejections, and what he learned from them. I like many others like me, are extremely sensitive to being criticized and being denied when they participate in various competitions. I take everything very personal and every refusal to end the world, each one taken as critical evidence that is not good for anything, every correction I have worked as proof enough. It is a way of looking at things very damaging and I worked a lot to change that way of looking at things and see and get to the constructive criticism. But my work was quite in vain until I read his book and saw Marquez explained that he was trained as a writer was influenced by criticism from friends, from editors, etc. from critics. Already famous novel "One Hundred Years of Solitude" was refused several times to publication and rebuilt many times trying to make it better and better and better, taking into account also received criticism from those who read it . And the result was what we all know: a novel by Nobel prize. Reading his book I've come to the conclusion that I want to be a Gabriel Garcia Marquez and not a John Kennedy Toole. So every day of my life came to be conducted under the sign of Marquez and each time they receive every criticism I think of him. If a Nobel Prize writer agrees that anything he writes is a priori not perfect then I can accept the advice of others can be constructive.Thanks.