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.” Mario Vargas Llosa

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.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

You can be inspired by others, but when you're inspired from within then you have real power for change.

I don't want to redo what I've [just done]. I don't want to retread old ground.

All flesh doth frailty breed!

Let go of the anger, hang on to the good lessons.

When we work from the Soul consciousness, we can shape our own destiny.

I don’t know about art but I know what I like.

In real life, people are going by fast and it's hard to draw them from my eye alone in a split second.

No one received them [the coalition forces] with roses. They were received with bombs, shoes and bullets.

In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves.