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Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian
Writer
About the author
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
Mario Vargas Llosa,
Peruvian
Writer
#Nothing
#Despair
You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.
Mario Vargas Llosa,
Peruvian
Writer
#Writer
#Help
#Creativity
Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.
Mario Vargas Llosa,
Peruvian
Writer
#World
#Writing
#Rest
#Business
#Lonely
#Memories
#Obsessions
There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
Mario Vargas Llosa,
Peruvian
Writer
#Literary
#Creation
Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.
Mario Vargas Llosa,
Peruvian
Writer
#Sacrifice
#Freedom
#Equality
#Illusion
#Prosperity
Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
Mario Vargas Llosa,
Peruvian
Writer
#Democracy
#Elections
It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
Mario Vargas Llosa,
Peruvian
Writer
#Animals
If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
Mario Vargas Llosa,
Peruvian
Writer
#Respect
#Writer
#Expression
Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.
Mario Vargas Llosa,
Peruvian
Writer
#Pleasure
#Justification
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 life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary.
Mario Vargas Llosa,
Peruvian
Writer
#Life
#Circumstances
#Literary
#Dream
#Illusion
#Lie