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