Manuel Puig Quotes About Literature
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.
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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
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I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
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I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
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I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
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I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
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Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.
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In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
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