"This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at the same time I needed some distance, some perspective on this experience in order to feel free enough to manipulate it and to transform it into fiction. If the experience is very close, I feel inhibited. I have never been able to write fiction about something that has happened to me recently. If the closeness of the real reality, of living reality, is to have a persuasive effect on my imagination, I need a distance, a distance in time and in space."

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Source : Mario Vargas Llosa (1991). “A Writer's Reality”, Mariner Books

Mario Vargas Llosa

#Real Quotes #Distance Quotes #Writing Quotes

“If I put my name on something, I'm going to be involved. I'm not just going to put my name on it and not pay attention.”
“When the world lacks muscular and wise American leadership, it devolves into total chaos, which, in turn, produces unspeakable evils.”
“It is not our comment on the Word that saves, but the Word itself.”
“I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.”

Source : Amanda Palmer (2015). “The Art of Asking: Wie ich aufhörte, mir Sorgen zu machen, und lernte, mir helfen zu lassen”, p.126, BASTEI LÜBBE
“The more evolutionary theory gets called an atheistic theory, the greater the risk that it will lose its place in public school biology courses in the United States. If the theory is thought of in this way, one should not be surprised if a judge at some point decides that teaching evolutionary theory violates the Constitutional principle of neutrality with respect to religion.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Doubt begins only at the last frontiers of what is possible.”
“It was only natural to want to destroy something you could never have.”
“My parents are hippies, so I must have a bit of hippie in me.”

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