List of Manuel Puig Quotes

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.

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.

I Don't Want To Name Names, But The Least I Can Say About Rock And Roll Is That I'm Suspicious.

It's My Own Personal Unconscious That Ultimately Creates The Novel's Aesthetic Facade.

I Think Cinema Is Closer To Allegories Than To Reality. It's Closer To Our Dreams.

The Essayist Has To Follow A Certain Intellectual Pattern. The Novelist Has The Advantage Of Using Fantasy, Of Being Subjective.

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.

Tardiness In Literature Can Make Me Nervous.

My Stories Are Very Somber, So I Think I Need The Comic Ingredient. Besides, Life Has So Much Humor.

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.

I Like The Beauty Of Faulkner's Poetry. But I Don't Like His Themes, Not At All.

I Believe Realism Is Nothing But An Analysis Of Reality. Film Scripts Have A Synthetical Constitution.