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 LlosaReading 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 LlosaI have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.
Mario Vargas LlosaI 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