Manuel Puig

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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

— Manuel Puig

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My pleasure was to copy, not to create. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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

— Manuel Puig

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Tardiness in literature can make me nervous. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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The writer needs to react to his or her own internal universe, to his or her own point of view. If he or she doesn't have a personal point of view, it's impossible to be a creator. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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

— Manuel Puig

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