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No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. - Mario Vargas Llosa

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

My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human mind, destroy principles and values, and transform people into little monsters. - Mario Vargas Llosa

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

I remember how my world expanded in amazing fashion by that magical operation of translating words into images, and images into stories. - Mario Vargas Llosa

I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated. - Mario Vargas Llosa

I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are all the dimensions of life. But politics is one among others. - Mario Vargas Llosa

To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution. - Mario Vargas Llosa

I wouldn't reread Sartre today. Compared to everything I've read since, his fiction seems dated and has lost much of its value. - Mario Vargas Llosa

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

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

Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me. - Mario Vargas Llosa

I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision. - Mario Vargas Llosa

Latin America seemed to be a land where there were only dictators, revolutionaries, catastrophes. Now we know that Latin America can produce also artists, musicians, painters, thinkers, and novelists. - Mario Vargas Llosa

The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me. - Mario Vargas Llosa

Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us. - Mario Vargas Llosa

Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate. - Mario Vargas Llosa

Good literature is absolutely necessary for a society that wants to be free. - Mario Vargas Llosa

Good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is, without a doubt, hard work. There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular, there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit. - Mario Vargas Llosa

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