Mario Vargas Llosa is a famous Writer from Peru, he/she is 88 years old and still alive, born March 28, 1936.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac aries, who is known for Active, Demanding, Determined, Effective, Ambitious.
Our collection contains 10 quotes who is written / told by Mario.
"If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know"
"No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing"
"Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion"
"Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections"
"There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity"
"Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary"
"It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around"
"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"
"Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories"
"Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty"
