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Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

Peruvian - Writer | March 28, 1936 -

Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Good Power Literature Inevitable Up

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.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Time Adventure Me Book Facts Study

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Respect You Know Expression Because

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Freedom Sacrifice Equality Choose

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

Mario Vargas Llosa

Nothing Matter Despair Something How

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Political Creation Activity Between

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Live Animals True More Room Move

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Me Enough Moral Individual Own

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

Good Creativity Help You Young Kind

When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in particular the lost generation - Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos - especially Faulkner. Of the authors I read when I was young, he is one of the few who still means a lot to me.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Me Generation American Lost Young

I wouldn't reread Sartre today. Compared to everything I've read since, his fiction seems dated and has lost much of its value.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Today Value Lost Everything Fiction

Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world of theatricality emerges around the act of love.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Love Time Art World Literature Born

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