Colombian writers: Gabriel García Márquez’s attention to detail, remembered 20 years on

They sat down together to go over the notes on the transcriptions and to talk about the settings; about the details, always the details.
It was in the detail that Arteaga recognized that Gabo’s greatness lay.
“He wanted to go to the cottage where they kept Maruja and Beatriz, he wanted to go into the bathroom… or get into the car that took them to the place where they joined Marina.
You’re going to Cartagena tomorrow.”“Just like that, out of the blue, the master storyteller came into my life,” says Arteaga.
After endless interviews during which García Márquez made sure he squeezed all the details out of the interviewees, the author’s cousin and private secretary Margarita transcribed the hours of recordings.

Fuente: http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/28/inenglish/1475068674_385724.html