Mario Vargas Llosa, In Praise Of Reading And Fiction: The Nobel Lecture Quotes
We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal.
Living is worth the effort if only because without life we could not read or imagine stories.
Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.