All Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes
- There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity. Activity
- You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer… Cannot Teach
- This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at… Able
- It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around. Animal
- Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian… Become Literary
- I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness. Fighting
- 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… Assure
- Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life Inspirational
- Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant state of dissatisfaction… Alarm
- The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and artistic castration. Artist
- I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations. All
- No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy… Authoritarian
- The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be… All
- Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections. Democracy
- Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty. Eroticism
- No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. Despair
- I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores. Calle
- Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present. Alters
- Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern. Candle
- Writers are the exorcists of their own demons. Demon
- It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator. Almost Impossible
- But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet… All
- One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser. Battle
- That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the… Achieve
- I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of… All