More Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.
When I thought I was going to lose my mind in the face of so much suffering. This is how I discovered that a human being cannot live without believing.
It is easier to imagine the death of one person than that of a hundred or a thousand... Multiplied, suffering becomes abstract. It is not easy to be moved by abstract things.
Although they say that only idiots are happy, I confess that I felt happy.
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.
I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.
