Mario Vargas Llosa

“I remember how my world expanded in amazing fashion by that magical operation of translating words into images, and images into stories.”

“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.”

“Literature is dangerous: it awakens a rebellious attitude in us.”

“Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.”

“I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are all the dimensions of life. But politics is one among others.”