When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in particular the lost generation -… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
There are so many new young poets, novelists, and playwrights who are much less politically committed than the former generations. The trend… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I remember, when I was young, to have a literary or artistic vocation was really dramatic because you were so isolated from… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Nothing better protects a human being against the stupidity of prejudice, racism, religious or political sectarianism, and exclusivist nationalism than this truth that invariably… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I think if you're impregnated with good literature, with good culture, you're much more difficult to manipulate, and you're much more aware of the… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
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… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
