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 LlosaMemory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.
Mario Vargas LlosaNorth American society could not have reached its state of high development and modernity had it not been an open society.
Mario Vargas LlosaThe writerโs job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think thatโs 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