Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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
Copy
Copies
Create
Pleasure
More quotes by 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
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
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
It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
Manuel Puig
My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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
I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
Manuel Puig
The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
Manuel Puig
I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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
I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.
Manuel Puig
I allow my intuition to lead my path.
Manuel Puig
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.
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
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
Manuel Puig
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
Manuel Puig
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
Manuel Puig
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
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