Manuel Puig Quotes

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Manuel Puig

Profession : Author

Birth : December 28, 1932

One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently.

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My pleasure was to copy, not to create.

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

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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.

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In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

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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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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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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.

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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.

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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

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

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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.

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

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