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…

— Manuel Puig

Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Manuel Puig

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

— Manuel Puig

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…

— Manuel Puig

Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.

— Manuel Puig

I only understand realism.

— Manuel Puig

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops…

— Manuel Puig

I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in…

— Manuel Puig

I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself.

— Manuel Puig

Being a man (male "macho") does not give you right to anything.

— Manuel Puig

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

— Manuel Puig

The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he…

— Manuel Puig

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

— Manuel Puig

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

I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes…

— Manuel Puig

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

— Manuel Puig