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Quotes by Peruvian Authors
"Poverty doesn't imply necessarily violence."
"You cannot teach creativity - how to become a good writer. But you can help a young writer discover within himself what kind of writer he would like to be."
"We will be sending our own observers in to monitor the electoral process."
"If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know."
"I find that acrylics dry very fast - which is supposed to be its charm; however, I find that because of that quality they don't blend as nicely as the oils. The oils, for one thing, are softer and more flexible than the acrylics. Also, the colors are brighter with oils."
"I want to assure your excellency that I am occupying myself permanently and jointly with my team to achieve a solution as soon as possible to this crisis, the principal objective being the safeguarding of the health and life of those who are inside."
"There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity."
"Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections."
"You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school."
"Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories."
"One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos."
"I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic."
"The patient is in intensive care but still alive."
"There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration."
"Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty."
"We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same."
"Since it is impossible to know what's really happening, we Peruvians lie, invent, dream and take refuge in illusion. Because of these strange circumstances, Peruvian life, a life in which so few actually do read, has become literary."
"What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy."
"No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing."
"Manuel Rosales is being unjustly persecuted. He won't return to Venezuela under these circumstances, because Peru will never expel him."
"It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around."
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