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the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art. . . these dismal moods have very little compensation.

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Mario Vargas Llosa

Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of 5. This changed his life. Owing to the adventure tales he read, he discovered a way to escape from the poor house, the poor country, and the poor reality in which he lived.

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Men do not live by truth alone; they also need lies: those that they invent freely, not those that are imposed on them; those that appear as they are, not smuggled in beneath the clothes of history. Fiction enriches their existence, completes them and, fleetingly, compensates them for this tragic condition which is our lot: always to desire and dream more than we can actually achieve.

Dream, Fiction, Imposed, Lying, Men, Smuggled

I have been always fascinated and seduced by history, which I think is very close, very close to literature.

Close, Has Beens, Literature, Seduced, Thinking

I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

Become, Famous, Full, Infamy, Insult, Men

In general, I think my freedom of invention is not limited when I use historical characters.

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I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of the plot. I write without thinking much, trying to overcome all kinds of self-criticism, without stopping, without giving any consideration to the style or structure of the novel, only putting down on paper everything that can be used as raw material, very crude material for later development in the story.

Everything, Novel, Overcome, Self, Thinking, Writing
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