More Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
Although they say that only idiots are happy, I confess that I felt happy.
Reading is protesting against the insufficiencies of life.
I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
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.
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
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.
Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.
Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
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...
