Reading Quotes by Manuel Puig

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

— Manuel Puig

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

— Manuel Puig

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

— 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…

— Manuel Puig

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

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

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

Writers are not meant for action.

— Manuel Puig

I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.

— 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 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

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

— Manuel Puig