Manuel Puig Quotes
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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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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Writers are not meant for action.
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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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The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator.
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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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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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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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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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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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What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
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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 think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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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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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.
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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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We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
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I allow my intuition to lead my path.
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I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.