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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.
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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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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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 essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
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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 had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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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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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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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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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 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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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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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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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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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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 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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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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