This Fact Was Something I Also Learned

Mario Vargas Llosa

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.