Manuel Puig Quotes

Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time.

Manuel Puig

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: argentinian
  • Birth: December 28, 1932 - July 22, 1990

Topics

WorkTimeMeBookNeverBeen

Class doesn't create culture anymore.

Melvyn Bragg

CultureCreateClassAnymore

I know that we will be judged in history by not only how we disrupt terrorism but how we protect the civil liberties and constitutional rights of all Americans, even Americans who don't wish us well. We must do all these things exceptionally well.

Robert Mueller

HistoryWishKnowTerrorismProtect

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

Ann Beattie

NobodyEverythingAssumeWriter

And that's one thing that helps me is I learn it blandly, vanilla, then I don't try to act it too soon because you start to act it, and you kind of go away from what the next sentence is, what the next paragraph is. So get it down so it kind of can - it's in there so you can then, as I call it, dance on top of it.

Jeff Daniels

DanceMeStartLearnYouDown

I think of childhood as an explosion of creativity. For most people, growing up and earning a living means leaving all that behind. But an artist never leaves that behind. Edwin Mullhouse was my way of exploring the child as artist and, under the guise of childhood, something larger.

Steven Millhauser

CreativityChildhoodChildPeople

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

Steven Pinker

KnowledgePerspectiveWorldKnow

I had Botox and I hated it. For four long months, I looked like a different person.

Stevie Nicks

LongPersonDifferentBotoxFour

Unless you stay focused on innovation, you can be disintermediated.

Ruth Porat

InnovationStay FocusedYouFocused

I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.

Matisyahu

MusicThinkMusiciansBandAlways

The Chinese government learnt how to manage the Internet from Western developed countries; we have not learnt enough yet.

Lu Wei

GovernmentInternetEnoughChinese

As a director, you never think about how an audience would respond. You can think about that, but you will never change what you're going to do.

Juan Antonio Bayona

ChangeThinkYouWillNeverRespond

I already have enough apparel businesses that are either doing well or not really doing anything at all, and I'm looking to broaden my portfolio.

Daymond John

LookingDoingEnoughAnythingWell

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