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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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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Lies crushed day and night become truths.

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It is easier to imagine the death of one person than that of a hundred or a thousand... Multiplied, suffering becomes abstract. It is not easy to be moved by abstract things.

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I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.

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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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When I thought I was going to lose my mind in the face of so much suffering. This is how I discovered that a human being cannot live without believing.

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Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

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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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