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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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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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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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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 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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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
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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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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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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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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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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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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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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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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'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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