213 Quotes by Mario Vargas Llosa

writing fiction is the best thing there is because absolutely everything is possible!

I don't accept the idea that literature can be just entertainment and that there is no consequences of literature in the real world.

When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

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.

No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible.

Do the rhetorical quarrels of bourgeois political parties have anything to do with the interests of the humble and downtrodden?

We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.

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.

I 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.