"This fact was something I also learned from……" — Mario Vargas Llosa
"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 the same time I needed some distance, some perspective on this experience in order to feel free enough to manipulate it and to transform it into fiction. If the experience is very close, I feel inhibited. I have never been able to write fiction about something that has happened to me recently. If the closeness of the real reality, of living reality, is to have a persuasive effect on my imagination, I need a distance, a distance in time and in space."
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38 Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
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I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations.
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