I do, too. To support your point about his humility: He's one of the best examples of a novelist who broke what critics often call "the curse of the Nobel" in that he wrote one of his greatest novels, "Love in the Time of Cholera," after he won it.

So often writers do inferior work after they get the Nobel, and while that in some cases may reflect how old they were when they received it (i.e., long after they did their best writing), I suspect that in other cases something else is going on: The prize goes to their head and they don't try as hard. That didn't happen with Garcia Marquez: You always had the sense that he felt owed it to his readers to maintain the highest standard he could.