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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
Author
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne
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Fiction
Imagination
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Someone
Writes
Writing
Unconscious

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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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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'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 believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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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 allow my intuition to lead my path.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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Writers are not meant for action.
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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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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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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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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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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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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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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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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 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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