Carlos Q.

“We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other.”
― José Saramago

“Writers are the exorcists of their own demons.”
― Mario Vargas-Llosa

“The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate. I think literature is impoverished, if it becomes cut from the main agenda of people, of society, of life.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa

“Oh, life, life!" Bastidas complained, sipping his drink. "What is life? A little flame at the tip of a candle, exposed to a strong wind.”
― Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Marginal Voices: Selected Stories