Argentinian - Author | December 28, 1932 - July 22, 1990
It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.
Manuel Puig
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Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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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?
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If the novelist shares his or her problems with the characters, he or she is able to study his personal unconscious.
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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.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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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.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality.
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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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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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