A writer who does not risk anything is not a real writer. He... - Mario Vargas Llosa

"A writer who does not risk anything is not a real writer. He must put his entire being into question with each book."

Mario Vargas Llosa Courage

Novelist Peruvian Born 1936 (age 90)

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