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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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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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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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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Writers are not meant for action.
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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 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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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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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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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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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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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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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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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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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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I allow my intuition to lead my path.
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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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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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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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