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Manuel Puig Inspirational Quotes (43)

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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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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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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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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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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 haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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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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 allow my intuition to lead my path.
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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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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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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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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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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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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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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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