Manuel Puig Quotes

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Manuel Puig

Profession : Author

Birth : December 28, 1932

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig

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

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

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

Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig

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

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

Manuel Puig

Writers are not meant for action.

Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig

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

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

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

Manuel Puig

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

Manuel Puig