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• There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
• You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what…
• This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create…
• It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
• Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these…
• I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.
• The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating…
• Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life
• Literature is a form of permanent insurrection. Its mission is to arouse, to disturb, to alarm, to keep men in a constant…
• The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and…
• I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.
• No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because,…

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