Quotes By Manuel Puig
If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
Manuel Puig
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
Manuel Puig
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.
Manuel Puig
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.
Manuel Puig
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.
Manuel Puig
I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work.
Manuel Puig
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.
Manuel Puig
It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied.
Manuel Puig
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
Manuel Puig
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
Manuel Puig
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
We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.
Manuel Puig
My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
Manuel Puig
One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.
Manuel Puig
Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
Manuel Puig
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