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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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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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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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I allow my intuition to lead my path.
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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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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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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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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 have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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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 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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