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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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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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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 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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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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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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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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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level.
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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 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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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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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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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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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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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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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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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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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