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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It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.

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He felt immense tenderness for her. He was sure that he would always love her, for my happiness and also my misfortune.

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Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

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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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Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

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Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.

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Reading is protesting against the insufficiencies of life.

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