Manuel Puig was a famous Author from Argentina, who lived between December 28, 1932 and July 22, 1990. He/she became 57 years old.
Our collection contains 49 quotes who is written / told by Manuel.
49 Famous quotes by Manuel Puig
"I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams"
"I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood"
"I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious"
"I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life"
"I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful"
"I only understand realism"
"I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all"
"I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something"
"I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side"
"I allow my intuition to lead my path"
"Tardiness in literature can make me nervous"
"My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics"
"I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms"
"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free"
"Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time"
"The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective"
"One performs a very different act when reading a movie and when reading a novel. Your attention behaves differently"
"I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written"
"I began teaching in New York because I needed to stay in the United States and didn't have my immigration papers in order, so working for a university was a way of resolving the issue"
"I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry"
"My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs"
"It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade"
"It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope"
"I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality"
"I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it"
"I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones"
"What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other"
"Modern American cinema seems to me superficial. The intention is to understand a certain reality, and the result is nothing but a photographing of that reality"
"I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work"
"I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you"
"I felt the need to tell stories to understand myself"
"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 information can act as an inhibitor"
"Contrary to what Kafka does, I always like to refer all of my fictions to the level of reality, He, on the other hand, leaves them at an imaginary level"
"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 like a personal therapy"
"Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader"
"My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor"
"Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing"
"It's essential not to have an ideology, not to be a member of a political party. While the writer can have certain political views, he has to be careful not to have his hands tied"
"If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it"
"I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money"
"I would very much like to become a best-selling author"
"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"
"As a rule, one should never place form over content"
"Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives"
"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 film viewer"
"I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution"
"Writers are not meant for action"
"The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!"
