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Manuel Puig quotes: 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

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

Manuel Puig quotes: 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.

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.

Manuel Puig quotes: For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

Manuel Puig quotes: I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams.

Manuel Puig quotes: The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

Manuel Puig quotes: In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

Manuel Puig quotes: I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

Manuel Puig quotes: What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

Manuel Puig quotes: I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

Manuel Puig quotes: I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

Manuel Puig quotes: My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

Manuel Puig quotes: Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

Manuel Puig quotes: Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

Manuel Puig quotes: Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

Manuel Puig quotes: It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.

Manuel Puig quotes: One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

Manuel Puig quotes: Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

Manuel Puig quotes: All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's like a personal therapy.

Manuel Puig quotes: 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.

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.

Manuel Puig quotes: We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Manuel Puig quotes: Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

Manuel Puig quotes: If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Manuel Puig quotes: I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.

Manuel Puig quotes: I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

I believe in characters as vehicles of exposition. Their voices are full of hidden clues, and I like to listen to them.

Manuel Puig quotes: It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

Manuel Puig quotes: I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

Manuel Puig quotes: Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.

Manuel Puig quotes: I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

Manuel Puig quotes: My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

Manuel Puig quotes: I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

Manuel Puig quotes: I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

Manuel Puig quotes: I only understand realism.

I only understand realism.

Manuel Puig quotes: I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

Manuel Puig quotes: I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.

Manuel Puig quotes: I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

Manuel Puig quotes: Writers are not meant for action.

Writers are not meant for action.

Manuel Puig quotes: If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

Manuel Puig quotes: The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.

Manuel Puig quotes: Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.

Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.

Manuel Puig quotes: My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

Manuel Puig quotes: I allow my intuition to lead my path.

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

Manuel Puig quotes: I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it.

Manuel Puig quotes: I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

Manuel Puig quotes: I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.

Manuel Puig quotes: As a rule, one should never place form over content.

As a rule, one should never place form over content.

Manuel Puig quotes: I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

Manuel Puig quotes: What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

Manuel Puig quotes: My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

Manuel Puig quotes: - But you have to reason it out then and convince yourself.- Yes, but there are reasons of the heart that reason doesn't encompass.

- But you have to reason it out then and convince yourself.
- Yes, but there are reasons of the heart that reason doesn't encompass.

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!

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 quotes: I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.

Manuel Puig quotes: I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.