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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

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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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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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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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I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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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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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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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 felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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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 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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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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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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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 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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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 have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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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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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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