More Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...
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.
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.
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
Although they say that only idiots are happy, I confess that I felt happy.
I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
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.
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
