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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 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 would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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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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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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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 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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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
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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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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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It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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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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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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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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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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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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