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

- Mario Vargas Llosa

‎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 …

- Mario Vargas Llosa

We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts.

- Mario Vargas Llosa

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

- Mario Vargas Llosa

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

- Mario Vargas Llosa

Violence represents the worst kind of conformism.

- Mario Vargas Llosa

I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness.

- 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 …

- Mario Vargas Llosa

The secret to happiness, at least to peace of mind, is knowing how to separate sex from love. And, if possible, eliminating romantic love from your l…

- Mario Vargas Llosa