More Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
Although they say that only idiots are happy, I confess that I felt happy.
Don't ask me why, because I'm not even going to tell you dead. I'm never going to tell you that I love you even if she loves you.
Reading is protesting against the insufficiencies of life.
One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
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...
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.
Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.
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.
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.
Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.
