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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

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Manuel Puig
Age: 57 †
Born: 1932
Born: December 28
Died: 1990
Died: July 22
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Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne
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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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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'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 write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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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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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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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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Writers are not meant for action.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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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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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 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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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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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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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 felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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