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fsgbooks: “That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it.” -Mario Vargas Llosa, Letters to a Young Novelist

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“That is one thing I am sure of amid my many uncertainties regarding the literary vocation: deep inside, a writer feels that writing is the best thing that ever happened to him, or could ever happen to him, because as far as he is concerned, writing is the best possible way of life, never mind the social, political, or financial rewards of what he might achieve through it.”

-Mario Vargas Llosa, Letters to a Young Novelist

25th January 2012
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa

Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Mario Vargas Llosa

7th October 2010
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