Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
Manuel Puig
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Manuel Puig
Age: 57 †
Born: 1932
Born: December 28
Died: 1990
Died: July 22
Author
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne
Feelings
Thing
Never
Think
Thinking
Nicest
Unhappy
Feeling
Happy
More quotes by Manuel Puig
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.
Manuel Puig
Writers are not meant for action.
Manuel Puig
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.
Manuel Puig
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig
I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.
Manuel Puig
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.
Manuel Puig
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
Manuel Puig
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.
Manuel Puig
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.
Manuel Puig
If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
Manuel Puig
Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
Manuel Puig
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
Manuel Puig
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
Manuel Puig
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
Manuel Puig
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
Manuel Puig
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
Manuel Puig
I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
Manuel Puig
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.
Manuel Puig
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.
Manuel Puig
I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
Manuel Puig
