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In fiction, you are not limit...

In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.

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To write is a relief from lif...

To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution.

Mario Vargas Llosa 71 quotes

The novels that have fascinat...

The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me.

Mario Vargas Llosa 71 quotes

You cannot teach creativity -...

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 71 quotes

In general, a writer would li...

In general, a writer would like to think that the best book that he has written is the book that he is writing, and the next book will be even better. Maybe if this is not true, it is very useful to keep the illusion alive.

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Good literature is absolutely...

Good literature is absolutely necessary for a society that wants to be free.

Mario Vargas Llosa 71 quotes

Each book, for me, has been a...

Each book, for me, has been an adventure, a period of time dedicated to study, to document certain facts, to traveling, and also to fantasize and to invent.

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I think yellow journalism is ...

I think yellow journalism is something that appears everywhere, in the underdeveloped and developed worlds alike.

Mario Vargas Llosa 71 quotes

I think that literature is so...

I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are all the dimensions of life. But politics is one among others.

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I was absolutely convinced th...

I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn't win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given to people more or less affiliated with, let's say, socialist ideas, and that was not my case.

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I thought that, when I came t...

I thought that, when I came to New York, that I would have a very life here for three months or three and a half months. And my impression is that it won't be so quiet as I wanted.

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I remember how my world expan...

I remember how my world expanded in amazing fashion by that magical operation of translating words into images, and images into stories.

Mario Vargas Llosa 71 quotes

Couldn't imagine any other wa...

Couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in other things, of course - I am interested in many things. But the center, the crux, is always literature.

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Iraq is better without Saddam...

Iraq is better without Saddam Hussein than with Saddam Hussein. Without a doubt.

Mario Vargas Llosa 71 quotes

Good novel is a conjunction o...

Good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is, without a doubt, hard work. There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular, there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.

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There are so many new young p...

There are so many new young poets, novelists, and playwrights who are much less politically committed than the former generations. The trend is to be totally concentrated on the literary aesthetic and to consider politics to be something dirty that shouldn't be mixed with an artistic or a literary vocation.

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Today, everybody is more or l...

Today, everybody is more or less conscious of the total failure of the Cuban revolution to produce wealth, to produce a better standard of living for the Cubans. With the exception of small radical parties, Latin Americans know that it's a brutal dictatorship and the longest in Latin American history.

Mario Vargas Llosa 71 quotes

The Nobel prize is a fairytal...

The Nobel prize is a fairytale for a week and a nightmare for a year. You can't imagine the pressure to give interviews, to go to book fairs.

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I would like my novels to be ...

I would like my novels to be read the way I read the novels I love.

Mario Vargas Llosa 71 quotes

No matter how ephemeral it is...

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.

Mario Vargas Llosa 71 quotes

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