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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 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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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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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 believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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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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Writers are not meant for action.
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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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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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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 haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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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I allow my intuition to lead my path.
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Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.
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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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