Latin America seemed to be a land where there were only dictators, revolutionaries, catastrophes. Now we know that Latin America can produce also artists, musicians, painters, thinkers, and novelists. Mario Vargas Llosa Read Quote
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. Mario Vargas Llosa Read Quote
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. Mario Vargas Llosa Read Quote
I thought that, when I came to New York, that I would have a very life here for three months or three and a half months. And my impression is that it won’t be so quiet as I wanted. Mario Vargas Llosa Read Quote
I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It’s an expression of what is life, of what are all the dimensions of life. But politics is one among others. Mario Vargas Llosa Read Quote
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 Read Quote
In general, a writer would like to think that the best book that he has written is the book that he is writing, and the next book will be even better. Maybe if this is not true, it is very useful to keep the illusion alive. Mario Vargas Llosa Read Quote
I was absolutely convinced that I wouldn’t win the Nobel Prize. My impression was that the Nobel Prize in Literature was given to people more or less affiliated with, let’s say, socialist ideas, and that was not my case. Mario Vargas Llosa Read Quote
