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There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.

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I learnt to read when I was five, and I think that is the most important thing that happened to me.

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I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for a while.

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In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.

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I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.

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When I was growing up, the Spanish-speaking world was Balkanized. We were isolated. We didn't know what was happening in cultural terms in Ecuador, Colombia and Chile. Nowadays, this has changed a lot - fortunately for writers and readers. There is much more integration.

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A novel is something, while despair is nothing.

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The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me.

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I don't want to finish my life not being alive. I think that is the saddest thing that can happen to a person. I want to keep living to the end.

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Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me.

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Biography

Nationality: Peruvian

Type: Writer

Born: March 28th, 1936

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