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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.
Manuel Puig
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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 began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue.
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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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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 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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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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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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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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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.
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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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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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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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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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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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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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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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