If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

Quote by Mario Vargas Llosa

Topics: Respect Quotes, Writers Quotes, Writing Quotes

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the...

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the...

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and...

Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and...

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me;...

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me;...

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve...

Prosperity or egalitarianism - you have to choose. I favor freedom - you never achieve...

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

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