Manuel Puig Quotes

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
Manuel Puig

Live, Greatest, Aspiration

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

Writing, After, Old

My pleasure was to copy, not to create.
Manuel Puig

Create, Pleasure, Copy

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

Life, Humor, Stories

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

Different, Attention, Reading

Tardiness in literature can make me nervous.
Manuel Puig

Literature, Nervous

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

Good, Young, Teaching

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

Follow, Advantage, Fantasy

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

Impossible, Her, Universe

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

Thinking, Write, Whenever

Writers are not meant for action.
Manuel Puig

Action, Writers, Meant

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Biography

Nationality: Argentinian

Type: Author

Born: December 28, 1932

Died: July 22, 1990

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