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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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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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As a rule, one should never place form over content.
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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 have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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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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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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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'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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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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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 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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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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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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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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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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 don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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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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