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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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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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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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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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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 believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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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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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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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
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I allow my intuition to lead my path.
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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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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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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 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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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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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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