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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
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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'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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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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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 don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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Writers are not meant for action.
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Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of
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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'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.
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