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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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Manuel Puig
Age: 57 †
Born: 1932
Born: December 28
Died: 1990
Died: July 22
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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 felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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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 have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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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 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.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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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'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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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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Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.
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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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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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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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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 had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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