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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. Its like a personal therapy. - Manuel Puig Quotes
As a rule, one should never place form over content. - 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. - Manuel Puig Quotes
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level. - Manuel Puig Quotes
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, its essential to be free. - Manuel Puig Quotes
Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. Theres an objective and a subjective camera, like theres a third- and a first-person narrator in literature. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I allow my intuition to lead my path. - 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. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didnt have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I believe that people who dont achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I can work in films as long as the story doesnt have a realistic nature. If Im working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I didnt choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I do believe that reading can help you understand what youre writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I dont have traceable literary models because I havent had great literary influences in my life. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I dont think humor is forced upon my universe; its a part of it. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I dont want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that Im suspicious. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I havent been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I like the beauty of Faulkners poetry. But I dont like his themes, not at all. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. Thats the genesis of all my work. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I only understand realism. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didnt like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. Its closer to our dreams. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I would very much like to become a best-selling author. - Manuel Puig Quotes
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. - Manuel Puig Quotes
I write novels because there is something I dont understand in reality. - Manuel Puig Quotes
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