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Manuel Puig Inspirational Quotes (43)

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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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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 have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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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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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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Writers are not meant for action.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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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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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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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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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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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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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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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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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
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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 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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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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Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.
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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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