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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.
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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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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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'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 write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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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 like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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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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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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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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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 doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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Your reality, isn’t restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you’re inside of
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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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