Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless,...

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

One of the most damaging myths of our time is that poor countries live in poverty because of a consp...

We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have...

Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.

Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to ...

It is the case that, albeit to a lesser extent, all fictions make their readers live "the impossible...

Fictions exist because of this fact. Because we have only one life, and our desires and fantasies de...

Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class so...

Honor, vengeance, that rigorous religion, those punctilicious codes of conduct - how to explain thei...

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality...

Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifest...

The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the t...

The search for liberty is simply part of the greater search for a world where respect for the rule o...

You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover wi...

From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological...

‎Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning wha...