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Writers are not meant for action.

Manuel Puig

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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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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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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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The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.
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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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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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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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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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 don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.
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I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.
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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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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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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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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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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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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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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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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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I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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