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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
Free
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Activate
Someone
Writes
Writing
Unconscious
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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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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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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.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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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 felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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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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