Latest Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes from Interviews

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• When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Writing, Weapons, Literature

  "Peruvian Writer Mario Vargas Llosa on the Importance of Literature". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 31, 2012.

• I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Real, Ideas, Literature

  "Peruvian Writer Mario Vargas Llosa on the Importance of Literature". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 31, 2012.

• We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment, but a way to act.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Reality, Ideas, Way

  "Peruvian Writer Mario Vargas Llosa on the Importance of Literature". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 31, 2012.

• In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Character, Thinking, Historical

  "Peruvian Writer Mario Vargas Llosa on the Importance of Literature". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 31, 2012.

• I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Thinking, Literature, Has Beens

  "Peruvian Writer Mario Vargas Llosa on the Importance of Literature". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 31, 2012.

• Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of 5. This changed his life. Owing to the adventure tales he read, he discovered a way to escape from the poor house, the poor country, and the poor reality in which he lived.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Country, Adventure, Boys

  "Peruvian Writer Mario Vargas Llosa on the Importance of Literature". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 31, 2012.

• Reading was such an enrichment of my life. And it was that pleasure that I had as a very young reader probably that is the origin of my vocation.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Reading, Pleasure, Young

  "Peruvian Writer Mario Vargas Llosa on the Importance of Literature". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. May 31, 2012.

• There are people with a lot of prejudice, a lot of fear of the unknown. They think that immigration is a danger, when really it is a solution. This is an interesting issue, because it will be a central question of our time.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Thinking, Issues, People

  "Interview With Mario Vargas Llosa". Interview with Katharyn Rodemann, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

• Journalism has been very important for me - for a long time I made my living as a journalist, and it also serves as a source of ideas. Many of the things I have written I would not have written without the experience of being a journalist.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Ideas, Long, Important

  "Interview With Mario Vargas Llosa". Interview with Katharyn Rodemann, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

• North American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Development, States, American Society

  "Interview With Mario Vargas Llosa". Interview with Katharyn Rodemann, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

• Even though what I enjoy most is literature, I would not want to live only in a world of fiction, cut off from the rest of life. No - I want to always have a foot in the street, to be inmersed in the activities of my contemporaries, in the times, in the place where I live.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Cutting, Rest Of Life, Feet

  "Interview With Mario Vargas Llosa". Interview with Katharyn Rodemann, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

• Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Political, Way, Opinion

  "Interview With Mario Vargas Llosa". Interview with Katharyn Rodemann, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

• 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

  Book, Mean, Literature

  "Interview With Mario Vargas Llosa". Interview with Katharyn Rodemann, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

• The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Inspiration, Secret, Masterpiece

  "Interview With Mario Vargas Llosa". Interview with Katharyn Rodemann, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

• I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think in the end this kind of activity absorbs one in such a way that it becomes one's way of life.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Believe, Artist, Thinking

  "Interview With Mario Vargas Llosa". Interview with Katharyn Rodemann, www.texasmonthly.com. November 2002.

• A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Hard Work, Doubt, Conjunctions

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

• 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

  Critical Spirit, Stubbornness, Novel

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com