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Manuel Puig

Manuel Puig

Argentinian Author

Born: Dec 28, 1932

Died: Jul 22, 1990

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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force. Manuel Puig

Positive Great People Consume Stuff Great Stuff Force Nourished Who

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. Manuel Puig

Political Ideology Party Member Be Careful Writer He Tied His Political Party Hands Political Views Essential While Certain Views Careful

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous. Manuel Puig

Me Nervous Make Tardiness Literature

It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade. Manuel Puig

Own Facade My Own Unconscious Aesthetic Ultimately Personal Creates Novel

In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that. Manuel Puig

You Will Analytical Because Audience Go Film Reject

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. Manuel Puig

Mind Somebody Reading Philosophical Books Kind He Reading Books Understand Same Gets Accustomed Movie Information Might Fully Spectator

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 of thing. Manuel Puig

Great Telling About French Sort Occupation Always Were German Wondered Authors Roman Interested Nouveau Novel Why Thing

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

Become Would Like Very Author Much

I think cinema is closer to allegories than to reality. It's closer to our dreams. Manuel Puig

Dreams Reality Cinema Think Our Our Dreams Than Closer

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. Manuel Puig

Me Writing Simple Finished Films Saw Excited Like Because Were Lot Childhood Movie Scripts Them Copies Started

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work. Manuel Puig

Work Character Problem Try Locate All My Work Genesis Understand Then Special

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something. Manuel Puig

Somebody Every Something Written Convince Novels

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

Say About Name Names Rock Rock And Roll Least Roll Suspicious Want

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it. Manuel Puig

Humor Think Universe Part Forced

I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side. Manuel Puig

Me Decision Side Literature Choose Chose

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. Manuel Puig

Immigration Resolving Way States Papers Stay New Because Issue Began York New York Order Working Teaching United United States Needed University

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