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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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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 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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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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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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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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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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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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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 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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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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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in 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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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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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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