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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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Manuel Puig
Age: 57 †
Born: 1932
Born: December 28
Died: 1990
Died: July 22
Author
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne
Writing
Unconscious
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Imagination
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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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 don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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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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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 felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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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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