Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

I would like my novels to be read the way I read the novels I love.

Mario Vargas Llosa

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• In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Violence

• I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Women
  • Independent
  • Strength

• My character in 'True Grit' would set these goals for herself that seemed near impossible, but to her they were possible. She was never going to believe anything else other than that.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Believe
  • She
  • Character

• George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • People
  • Forget
  • Name

• In Trinidad, where as new arrivals we were a disadvantaged community, that excluding idea was a kind of protection; it enabled us - for the time being, and only for the time being - to live in our own way and according to our own rules, to live in our own fading India.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Time
  • Live
  • Community

• I say I am stronger than fear.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Fear
  • Stronger

• My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • She
  • Fashion
  • Girlfriend

• If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Culture
  • See
  • Said

• Getting recognized on the street is fine, but I never really wanted to be famous.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Never
  • Famous
  • Street

• When you write fiction, you can sort of invent more but also pack it with emotions that are very pertinent to you. Whereas with nonfiction, you have to be as factual as possible but also hopefully - also bring... emotional relevance to the piece.

  

  Oscar Hijuelos
  • You
  • Emotional
  • Emotions

• Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Opportunity
  • Dance
  • Floor

• Consensus is what many people say in chorus but do not believe as individuals.

  

  Abba Eban
  • People
  • Believe
  • Say

• Each year, you've got to talk about it more and more, you've got to have programs. You're doing these camps, you've got to talk about concussion awareness.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Doing
  • Awareness

• While actors are great and awesome, writers literally create new worlds from scratch. What is sexier than that? Personally, I don't know why every last person out there isn't dating a writer.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Great
  • Why
  • Awesome

• The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality.

  

  Adam Johnson
  • People
  • Night
  • Reality

• I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve as Miss Golden Globe 2012.

  

  Rainey Qualley
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • Me

• Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Bad
  • History
  • Years

• I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

  

  Randolph Scott
  • Great
  • Yourself
  • Fate

• I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Want
  • Support

• It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Youth

• At the end of the day in our sport, you just have to sacrifice yourself completely to put the team first. That's not easy for us because we're so competitive, but that's the most important thing when it comes to World Championships.

  

  Christen Press
  • World
  • Important
  • Team

• At the age of twenty, having published nothing and having had little guidance in my reading, I decided that I wanted to write.

  

  David Bergen
  • Age
  • Reading

• 'When you were little, what inspired you to feel this way?'" Then he paused and asked, "Looking in the mirror and having it crack in two?" Instead of clobbering him, I laughed-the kind of laugh that escapes into the air before you can catch it. The kind of chuckle that shows a tiny form of acceptance. Trevor obviously didn't expect me to find his remark entertaining. He was primed for a fight. We both cracked up and locked eyes. His gaze lingered a little too long, not in a creepy way, but in a way that says I'm not ready to let this moment go.

  

  Ellen Schreiber
  • Eyes
  • Fight
  • Mirror

• I would like my novels to be read the way I read the novels I love.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa