Manuel Puig Quotes - Page 3

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• 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.

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  Reality, Hands, Doe

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

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  Writing, Thinking, Literature

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• I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.

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  Believe, Successful, People

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

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  Intellectual, Novelists, Literature

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

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  Writing, Literature, Fantasy

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

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  Literature, Aspiration, Tropics

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• The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!

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  Tasks, Language, Tension

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• What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

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  Thinking, Intellectual, Intuition

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• I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

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  Book, Literature, Study

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• I would very much like to become a best-selling author.

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  Selling

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• 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.

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  Writing, Literature, Film

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• Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

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  Hygiene, Literature, Tardiness

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• I don't want to name names, but the least I can say about rock and roll is that I'm suspicious.

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  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Names

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• 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.

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  Writing, Simple, Ukulele

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• 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.

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  Long, Stories, Literature

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