Manuel Puig Quotes

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

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• Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

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

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

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

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

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• If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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Manuel Puig (61)

Birth:	28th December, 1932
Death:	22nd July, 1990
Nationality:	Argentinean
Profession:	Author

About

Manuel Puig was born in General Villegas. After unsuccessfully studying architecture in the Universidad de Buenos Aires, he began working as a film archivist and editor in the city of Buenos Aires and later, in Italy after winning a scholarship from the Italian Institute of Buenos Aires. Puig's dream was to become a screenwriter to write TV shows and movies.

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