Argentinian - Author | December 28, 1932 - July 22, 1990
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.
Manuel Puig
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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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.
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I believe that people who don't achieve anything in life are isolated and resent those that are successful.
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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.
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I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.
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I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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I allow my intuition to lead my path.
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Hitchcock makes it very clear to us. There's an objective and a subjective camera, like there's a third- and a first-person narrator in literature.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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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.
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Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.
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