More Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa
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.
One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.
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.
Lies crushed day and night become truths.
No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
He felt immense tenderness for her. He was sure that he would always love her, for my happiness and also my misfortune.
It is rare and almost impossible for a novel to have only one narrator.
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.