Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig

We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig

If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.

Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig

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.

Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig

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.

Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig

I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.

Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.

Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig

I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.

Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig

In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert?

Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig

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

Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig

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
Manuel Puig

Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.

Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig

It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

Manuel Puig
Manuel Puig

As a rule, one should never place form over content.