It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.
Mario Vargas LlosaThe secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.
Mario Vargas LlosaMaintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
Mario Vargas LlosaEven 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