Books Quote by Manuel Puig Download Open image “I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.” — Manuel Puig ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Choose Literature Decision Decision making Didn Choose Literature Literature Chose Literature Literature Sides
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully. — Robert Metcalfe Copy Share Image
I had to decide if I wanted to be known as a writer or a reader. I chose writer. — Nathan Lowell Copy Share Image
If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I was born a writer. When that happens, you have no choice in the matter. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I never, ever decided that I had to write a novel because, to me, there's no such decision that ought to be made. It's… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I didn't want to be an author; I wanted to be a scientist. Not that I didn't love literature, but I couldn't distinguish it… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Literature is the ditch I'm going to die in. It's still the thing I care most about. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa. — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life. — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
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
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 Image
What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they? — Manuel Puig Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
