Zitate von Mario Vargas Llosa

„We all believe in the regulations, but you have to know how to interpret them.“

—  Mario Vargas Llosa, buch The Time of the Hero

The Time of the Hero (1963)

„Every thing is done halfway in Peru, and that is why everything goes wrong.“

—  Mario Vargas Llosa, buch The Time of the Hero

The Time of the Hero (1963)

„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, buch The Storyteller

Quelle: The Storyteller

„Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space…“

—  Mario Vargas Llosa

„One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.“

—  Mario Vargas Llosa, buch Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Quelle: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

„Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.“

—  Mario Vargas Llosa

„Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.“

—  Mario Vargas Llosa

„It is easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it.“

—  Mario Vargas Llosa, buch The Time of the Hero

The Time of the Hero (1963)

„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

„I convinced her that her first loyalty isn't to other people, but to her own feelings.“

—  Mario Vargas Llosa, buch The Bad Girl

Quelle: Travesuras de la niña mala

„Life is a shitstorm, in which art is our only umbrella."
(spoken by character in a novel by Mario Vargas Llosa)“

—  Mario Vargas Llosa

„You cannot teach creativity—how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be.” Mario Vargas Llosa“

—  Mario Vargas Llosa

„Well, at heart I knew she'd never be a normal woman. And I didn't want her to be one, because what I loved in her were the indomitable and unpredictable aspects of her personality“

—  Mario Vargas Llosa, buch The Bad Girl

Quelle: Travesuras de la niña mala

„No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.“

—  Mario Vargas Llosa

„Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.“

—  Mario Vargas Llosa, buch The War of the End of the World

Quelle: The War of the End of the World

„Revolution will free society of its afflictions, while science will free the individual of his.“

—  Mario Vargas Llosa, buch The War of the End of the World

Quelle: The War of the End of the World

„Death isn't enough. It doesn't remove the stain. But a slap, a whiplash, square on the face, does. Because a man's face is as sacred as his mother or his wife.“

—  Mario Vargas Llosa, buch The War of the End of the World

Quelle: The War of the End of the World

„When you start having bad luck, there isn't an end to it.“

—  Mario Vargas Llosa, buch The Time of the Hero

The Time of the Hero (1963)

„Literature creates a fraternity within human diversity and eclipses the frontiers erected among men and women by ignorance, ideologies, religions, languages, and stupidity.“

—  Mario Vargas Llosa

Nobel Lecture (2010)