Books Quote by Manuel Puig Download Open image “I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.” — Manuel Puig ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Novel Reality Writing
I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive except in… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To me, novels are a trip of discovery, and you discover things that you don't know and you assume that many of your readers… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Life is painful and disappointing. It is useless, therefore, to write new realistic novels. We generally know where we stand in relation to reality… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
Novels give you the opportunity to create a whole world. Because you create people, you make them talk... You decide who they are, whether… — Gioconda Belli Copy Share Image
I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion. — Curtis Sittenfeld 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
