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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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 allow my intuition to lead my path.
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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 believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.
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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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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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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 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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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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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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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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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
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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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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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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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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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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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