All Manuel Puig Quotes
- 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… Ancient
- 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… Always Wondered
- 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… Case
- I would very much like to become a best-selling author. Author
- I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work. All
- I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written. Academic
- I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something. Convince
- Writers are not meant for action. Action
- Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader. Always Thinking
- 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… Creator
- My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. Days
- My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics. Aspiration
- I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. Great
- 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. America
- If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force. Consume
- If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious. Able
- Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. American
- It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope. Helped
- It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. Aesthetic
- One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently. Act
- Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying. Contact
- All of my problems are rather complicated - I need an entire novel to deal with them, not a short story or a movie. It's… All
- I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot. Certain
- I allow my intuition to lead my path. Allow
- I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful. Achieve