No One Writes to the Colonel is a novella written by the Colombian novelist and Nobel Prize in Literature winner Gabriel García Márquez. It also gives its name to a short story collection. García Márquez considered it his best book, saying that he had to write One Hundred Years of Solitude so that people would read No One Writes to the Colonel.
“You can't eat hope,' the woman said.
You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.”
Source: El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
