Quotes by : Mario Vargas Llosa

We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have....

From the cave to the skyscraper, from the club to weapons of mass destruction, from the tautological....

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

Fictions exist because of this fact. Because we have only one life, and our desires and fantasies demand....

Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations....

It is the case that, albeit to a lesser extent, all fictions make their readers live "the impossible",....

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality....

One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.

You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within....

Honor, vengeance, that rigorous religion, those punctilicious codes of conduct - how to explain their....