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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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Writers are not meant for action.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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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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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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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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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 felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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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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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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I allow my intuition to lead my path.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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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 don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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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 haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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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 have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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