Mario Vargas Llosa's Interview

This blog is part of my academic activity. We have asked to read Mario Vargas Llosa's interview and share the ideas which we like the most from interview. Here are some ideas from interview which I like the most. To read the interview of Llosa click here.

"I think it is right to denounce abuses against women. These abuses are everywhere, so I have total sympathy for this movement as far as it is for more justice, more democracy, more equality of opportunities for women and men."

"If you respect literature you must accept not only the very idealist, altruist vision of human beings but also the infernal vision of them."

"You cannot attack literature for our vices and prejudices and stupidities. I think this is very important because I am convinced that the feminist movement’s voice should be heard, but I don’t accept this idea of censorship for literature or for culture in general."

"Young people today tend to think that images can form modern creative citizens. They don’t. Images create a passive citizen, more easily domesticated than the citizen formed by ideas. I am certainly convinced that ideas are much more important than images."

"words are acts and that you write things that could make a difference in history or solve problems. Writing was a way to participate in the creation of a different kind of society: freer, more just, more liberal."

"Probably historians are more accurate, but it doesn’t matter. The way literature impregnates the imagination is what matters."

"All writers are autobiographical. In some writers, this is more explicit and obvious, in others more hidden. But I don’t think you invent anything out of nothing. The main point of departure is always the personal memory of actual experience."

Thank you.