Manuel Puig Quotes

The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

Manuel Puig

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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.

V. S. Naipaul
- Life
- World
- Writing
I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.

Harold Ramis
- World
- Great
- Different
I love the way capitalism finds a place - even for its enemies.

Banksy
- Love
- Way
- Capitalism
I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!

Wayne Knight
- Complete
Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

Vance Joy
- Writing
- Real
- Experience
What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.

Tamron Hall
- People
- Desire
- First