writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible! Mario Vargas Llosa More Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa More Quotes From Mario Vargas Llosa I 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 literature mean book Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate. Mario Vargas Llosa opinion political way North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society. Mario Vargas Llosa american-society states development The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished, if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life. Mario Vargas Llosa writing jobs believe Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us. Mario Vargas Llosa us dangerous literature attitude Good literature is absolutely necessary for a society that wants to be free. Mario Vargas Llosa free good society literature I don't want to finish my life not being alive. I think that is the saddest thing that can happen to a person. I want to keep living to the end. Mario Vargas Llosa my-life end think life Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me. Mario Vargas Llosa pen first me paper Good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is, without a doubt, hard work. There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular, there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit. Mario Vargas Llosa good hard-work work patience Today, everybody is more or less conscious of the total failure of the Cuban revolution to produce wealth, to produce a better standard of living for the Cubans. With the exception of small radical parties, Latin Americans know that it's a brutal dictatorship and the longest in Latin American history. Mario Vargas Llosa better failure today history To write is a relief from life's problems. It is a way in which you revenge yourself. In art, the writer achieves utopia. But any attempt to achieve social utopia is bound to catastrophe. If you want a society of saints, the result is hell, repression, totalitarianism, and persecution. Mario Vargas Llosa yourself you life art 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. Mario Vargas Llosa captain service shooting special I think yellow journalism is something that appears everywhere, in the underdeveloped and developed worlds alike. Mario Vargas Llosa something think journalism yellow If you live in a country where there is nothing comparable to free information, often literature becomes the only way to be more or less informed about what's going on. Mario Vargas Llosa live you country way Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires. Mario Vargas Llosa good always power literature 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 than through me reason When I was young, I was a passionate reader of Sartre. I've read the American novelists, in particular the lost generation - Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dos Passos - especially Faulkner. Of the authors I read when I was young, he is one of the few who still means a lot to me. Mario Vargas Llosa american generation me lost I wouldn't reread Sartre today. Compared to everything I've read since, his fiction seems dated and has lost much of its value. Mario Vargas Llosa value everything lost today Eroticism is born at a time in civilisation when sexual instinct becomes deanimalised and enriched with contributions from art and from literature. A world of theatricality emerges around the act of love. Mario Vargas Llosa time love world art
