Everything Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa

I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

“The real measure of 'truth' in any novel is not whether the characters, places and events portrayed exist beyond the pages of the book,…

— Graeme Macrae Burnet

“The significant difference between Proust and Faulkner, for Sartre, is that where Proust discovers salvation in time, in the recovery of time past, for…

— John McCormick

“I hope I have now made it clear why I thought it best, in speaking of the dissonances between fiction and reality in our…

— Frank Kermode

“The novel, then, provides a reduction of the world different from that of the treatise. It has to lie. Words, thoughts, patterns of word…

— Frank Kermode

“We are all poor; but there is a difference between what Mrs. Spark intends by speaking of 'slender means', and what Stevens called our…

— Frank Kermode

I don't read a great deal of fiction, to my shame, other than the classics.

— Richard Attenborough

I am not particularly distressed by the state of fiction or the role of the writer. The more marginal, perhaps ultimately the more trenchant…

— Don DeLillo

There's a lot of fiction from that period that we're nostalgic for.

— Brian K. Vaughan

Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I…

— Akira Kurosawa

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may…

— Ernest Hemingway

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

— Joe Eszterhas