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

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

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

Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig

Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality.

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

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

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

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig

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

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

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.

Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig