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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Manuel Puig
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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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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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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 don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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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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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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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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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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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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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 felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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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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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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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 haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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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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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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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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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