«It is written to fill empty, to take targets against reality, against circumstances.»
«The artistic or literary genius is not in any case a guarantee of political lucidity.»
«Learning to read is the most important thing that has happened to me in life.»
«The writer feels intimately that writing is the best thing that has happened to him and can happen to him, because it means for him the best possible way to live.»
«My salvation was to read, read the good books, take refuge in those worlds where living was exalting, intense, an adventure after another, where I could feel free and was happy again.»
«Nothing enriches the senses, sensitivity, human desires, such as reading.»
«I am completely convinced that a person who reads, and that reads well, enjoys a lot better in life, although he is also a person who has more problems.»
«The only way to know if the novelist triumphs or fails is if, thanks to his writing, fiction is emancipated by its creator.»
«The passion for literature, like all good vices, increases over the years.»
«The world of literature, the world of art, is the world of perfection, is the world of beauty.»
Mario Vargas Llosa always has an adequate phrase.Adam Berry / Getty Images.
«Eroticism was synonymous with rebellion and freedom in social and artistic and a wonderful source of creativity.»
«The greatest challenge that the culture of freedom has, of democracy in our time, comes from nationalisms.»
«Knowledge has to do with the evolution of technique and science, and culture is something prior to knowledge, a propensity of the spirit, a sensitivity and a culture of the way that gives meaning and guidance to knowledge.»
“Writing is not a hobby or a sport. It is a servitude that makes its victims slaves. ”
«In the civilization of the show, the intellectual only interests if the fashion game continues and becomes a buffon.»