Quote

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

Manuel Puig

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Every
Something
Novels
Convince
Novel
Somebody
Written
Literature

More quotes by Manuel Puig

Image
I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
Manuel Puig
Image
Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
Manuel Puig
Image
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
Image
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
Manuel Puig
Image
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
Image
I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.
Manuel Puig
Image
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
Image
Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
Manuel Puig
Image
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
Image
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.
Manuel Puig
Image
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
Manuel Puig
Image
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
Manuel Puig
Image
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
Manuel Puig
Image
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
Manuel Puig
Image
I allow my intuition to lead my path.
Manuel Puig
Image
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
Manuel Puig
Image
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
Manuel Puig
Image
I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
Manuel Puig
Image
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.
Manuel Puig
Image
I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
Manuel Puig