Quote

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.

Manuel Puig

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Manuel Puig
Age: 57 †
Born: 1932
Born: December 28
Died: 1990
Died: July 22
Author
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne
Literature
United
Commercialized
Business
Publishing
Young
North
America
Worse
States
Writers
Never
Seen
Situation

More quotes by Manuel Puig

Image
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
Manuel Puig
Image
I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
Manuel Puig
Image
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Manuel Puig
Image
I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
Manuel Puig
Image
I allow my intuition to lead my path.
Manuel Puig
Image
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.
Manuel Puig
Image
Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
Manuel Puig
Image
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.
Manuel Puig
Image
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.
Manuel Puig
Image
I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.
Manuel Puig
Image
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
Manuel Puig
Image
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.
Manuel Puig
Image
I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
Manuel Puig
Image
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
Manuel Puig
Image
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
Manuel Puig
Image
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
Manuel Puig
Image
Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
Manuel Puig
Image
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
Manuel Puig
Image
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.
Manuel Puig
Image
Writers are not meant for action.
Manuel Puig