Peruvian - Writer | March 28, 1936 -
Part of the reasons I have lived the life I have is because I wanted to have an adventurous life. But my best adventures are more literary than political.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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I am in favor of economic freedom, but I am not a conservative.
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I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.
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Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.
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What is essential in love is what the French call 'amour fou.' What is that in English? Crazy love? That doesn't sound as beautiful. It's a total kind of love that not only embraces feelings, actions, but a kind of understanding of the world from the perspective of love.
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Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.
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I remember how my world expanded in amazing fashion by that magical operation of translating words into images, and images into stories.
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When I was growing up, the Spanish-speaking world was Balkanized. We were isolated. We didn't know what was happening in cultural terms in Ecuador, Colombia and Chile. Nowadays, this has changed a lot - fortunately for writers and readers. There is much more integration.
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A novel is something, while despair is nothing.
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I never get the feeling that I've decided rationally, cold-bloodedly to write a story. On the contrary, certain events or people, sometimes dreams or readings, impose themselves suddenly and demand attention.
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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.
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I would like my novels to be read the way I read the novels I love.
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