No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

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Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.

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

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Lies crushed day and night become truths.

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Reading is protesting against the insufficiencies of life.

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In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.

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But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.

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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.

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Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space...

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Although they say that only idiots are happy, I confess that I felt happy.

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