When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon.

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

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life.

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

The secret to a masterpiece is 10 percent inspiration and 90 percent perspiration.

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.

Its easy to know what you want to say, but not to say it

Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.

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

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

Love never could be overdone or go out of style.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

Obstinate, headstrong girl!

Life was profligate with beauty, only if you stopped to look, only if you had someone to share it with.

YouTube and other sites will bring together all the diverse media which matters to you, from videos of family and friends to news, music, sports, cooking and much, much more.

What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?

One little person, giving all of her time to peace, makes news. Many people, giving some of their time, can make history.

What we look for does not come to pass; God finds a way for what none foresaw.

As a public interest lawyer, your fund of injustice will never be empty.

Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and dreams into words on paper will result in a story.