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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'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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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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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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 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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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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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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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 have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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