For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he… — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig Copy Share
If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force. — Manuel Puig Copy Share
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. — Manuel Puig Copy Share
Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of… — Manuel Puig Copy Share
Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand,… — Manuel Puig Copy Share
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… — Manuel Puig Copy Share
I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more… — Manuel Puig Copy Share
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. — Manuel Puig Copy Share
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. — Manuel Puig Copy Share
If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not… — Manuel Puig Copy Share
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they? — Manuel Puig Copy Share
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 Copy Share
