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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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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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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 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 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 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'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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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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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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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 allow my intuition to lead my path.
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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 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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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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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
Manuel Puig
Writers are not meant for action.
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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