All Manuel Puig Quotes
- I only understand realism. Funny
- I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money. Accumulate
- The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard! Appearing
- We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power. Innermost
- What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they? Better
- What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. Better
- As a rule, one should never place form over content. Content
- Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time. Been
- For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. Activate
- 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. Camera
- I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry. Bad
- I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution. Analysis
- I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side. Choose