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Writers are not meant for action.

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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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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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I allow my intuition to lead my path.
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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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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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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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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 had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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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 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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It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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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 believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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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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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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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'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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