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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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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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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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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
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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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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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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 don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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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 haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
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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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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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I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.
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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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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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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 have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.
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