Peruvian - Writer | March 28, 1936 -
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.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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In 1975, I went to the Dominican Republic for eight months during the shooting of a film based on my novel 'Captain Pantoja and the Special Service.' It was during this period I heard and read about Trujillo.
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I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.
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I am not going to participate in professional politics again.
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Iraq is better without Saddam Hussein than with Saddam Hussein. Without a doubt.
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I think that literature has the important effect of creating free, independent, critical citizens who cannot be manipulated.
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I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for a while.
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Sartre said that wars were acts and that, with literature, you could produce changes in history. Now, I don't think literature doesn't produce changes, but I think the social and political effect of literature is much less controllable than I thought.
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I think if you're impregnated with good literature, with good culture, you're much more difficult to manipulate, and you're much more aware of the dangers that powers represent.
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I remember, when I was young, to have a literary or artistic vocation was really dramatic because you were so isolated from the common world. You felt that you were marginal, and if you dared to try to organise your life around your vocation, you knew you'd be completely segregated.
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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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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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