Mario Vargas Llosa

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#writing #writer

But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#inspirational

Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella." (spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa) ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#art

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible! ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#inspirational #writing #inspirational

Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#death

I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#first-sentence

No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#ephemeral #how #matter #nothing #novel

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. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#cannot #creativity #discover #good #good writer

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. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#business #cut #lonely #lonely business #memories

There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#between #creation #literary #political #political activity