Manuel Puig Quotes
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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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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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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.
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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 only understand realism.
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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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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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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 believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
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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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All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of
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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 like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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