Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes
Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
1975 writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!
3138 One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
3160 One of the most damaging myths of our time is that poor countries live in poverty because of a conspiracy of the rich countries, who arrange things so as to keep them underdeveloped, in order to exploit them.
2593 Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.
3799 Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.
2214 We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.
1673 Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.
1552 Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.
1460 Ce-mi place mie este să citesc romanele, nu să le fac autopsia.
4944 The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating romantic love from your life, which is the love that makes you suffer. That way, I assure you, you live with greater tranquility and enjoy things more.
4809 Eso era la historia, una rama de la fabulación que pretendía ser ciencia.
1351 You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.” Mario Vargas Llosa
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