Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mario Vargas Llosa
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: March 28
Dramaturge
Essayist
Film Director
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Philosopher
Playwright
Politician
Prosaist
Probably
Pleasure
Reading
Young
Life
Enrichment
Vocation
Origin
Reader

More quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa

Image
A good novel is a conjunction of many factors, the main of which is without a doubt, hard work.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Image
But what do I have? The things I'm told and the things I tell, that's all. And as far as I know, that never yet made anyone fly.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Image
We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Image
Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?
Mario Vargas Llosa
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Image
The truths that seem most truthful, if you look at them from all sides, if you look at them close up, turn out to be either half truths or lies.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Image
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
Image
In my case, literature is a kind of revenge. It's something that gives me what real life can't give me - all the adventures, all the suffering. All the experiences I can only live in the imagination, literature completes.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Image
Reading good literature is an experience of pleasure...but it is also an experience of learning what and how we are, in our human integrity and our human imperfection, with our actions, our dreams, and our ghosts, alone and in relationships that link us to others, in our public image and in the secret recesses of our consciousness.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Image
Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Image
One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Image
Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it
Mario Vargas Llosa
Image
Nothing better protects a human being against the stupidity of prejudice, racism, religious or political sectarianism, and exclusivist nationalism than this truth that invariably appears in great literature: that men and women of all nations and places are essentially equal, and only injustice sows among them discrimination, fear, and exploitation.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Image
Liberty is inseparable from social justice, and those who dissociate them, sacrificing the first with the purpose of attaining the second more quickly, are the true barbarians of our time.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Image
If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Image
I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Image
I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Image
A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be
Mario Vargas Llosa